Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?
> On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote:
>
> > Linux is great but thouse are NOT linux only things.
>
> OK, you're right, these are features generic to gnu-ish shells like bash
> and zsh which receive their greatest exposure through Linux. Virtual
> consoles aren't even Linux-specific, although they were one of Linus' main
> beefs with Minix, as I recall; from the beginning they have been a touted
> feature, if not a "linux-only" one.
>
It's both pre-Minix and pre-Linux, and even pre-GNU'ish...
perhaps somebody else, older than myself, can define if it's pre-Xenix too?
perhaps adopted from Unix's papa system... the M'something :-) or perhaps
from PDP?
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