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Subject: Re: Re: Access to kmem - System namelist
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| sysdpy?  Are you from RSTS/E, RSX, or RT-11 perversion?
| Or is sysdpy a general kind of thing that DEC always has in
| their OS's?
| 
| Perry
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I suspect the latter -- there was also a 'sysdpy' on both TOPS-10 and TOPS-20.
It always meant "continuous systat for displays" to me ('systat' was sort of
a cross between 'ps' and 'vmstat').

(...and 'syshzl' for Hazeltine terminals -- pre-termcap, don't 'ya know ;-} )

Rob Warnock

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