Accusing Bell of NIH (formerly Re: useless digest reference)

[Rich A. Hammond]

>	Stanley Friesen writes in reference to ioctl (Sys V vs BSD):
> ... The
> only really simple improvement was the OPOST idea, which Berkeley has
> implimented as LLITOUT! Maybe I should get the ioctl system I designed
> few years ago and post an outline of it to the net!(It is of course
> unimplemented).
> 	Gee, what a choice, the inflxibility of V7 ioctl or the
> overweaning complexity of Sys3/5 ioctl! Someone *please* implement
> a rational system.
> 
Well, at least on my BSD system LLITOUT doesn't work properly, it
takes more than one ioctl to get its effects propagated through the driver.
On the other hand, the last Sys V I used, OPOST worked fine, and with KMC's
the output speed was pretty nice.

Besides, the man pages for my 4.2 BSD tty(4) are 9.5, for Sys V termio(7)
they are only 7.  I don't find Sys V more complex, but tastes differ.
Rich Hammond