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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.
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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.