From: utzoo!decvax!cca!JIM@Washington@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: getty.c Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3256 Posted: Mon Sep 13 15:35:13 1982 Received: Tue Sep 14 06:11:47 1982 From: Jim ReesDate: 10 Sep 1982 1023-PDT Getty does indeed have bugs. The pause to throw out line noise is necessary in some cases, but it has been implemented wrong. The line puts(tabp->message) or whatever should go after the delay and stty, so that when the "login:" prompt comes out you know it is safe to start typing. I don't know the reason for the commented calls to signal. There are indeed Perkin-Elmer systems running real live Unix. I claim to have installed the first v7 Unix on a P-E outside of Bell in 1979. There are at least two implementations; the one that Bell refuses to release, which uses the portable C compiler, and the one from Australia, which uses a ported Ritchie compiler. P-E bought the Australian version, made some mods to it, incorporated a lot of Berkeley stuff (including the C shell), and now will sell it to you, too. The reason you never see P-E machines on Usenet is that uucp has bugs in it which prevent it from working on a P-E machine, and no one has bothered to try to fix it (that I know of). We have two Perkin-Elmer Unix systems here at University of Washington. -------