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 Rees 
Date: 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.
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