Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: UNIX history made easy Message-ID: <11215@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 3 Oct 89 20:04:33 GMT References:<20226@usc.edu> <17085@rpp386.cactus.org> <1858@texsun.Central.Sun.COM> <17090@rpp386.cactus.org> <1989Oct2.205642.5715@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 5 In article <1989Oct2.205642.5715@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes: >So what's the real reason early versions printed a semicolon before login: ? Just on the off-chance that you really want an answer to this one, "ESC ;" would put a Tektronix 4014 into small-font mode.