Not a typewriter

Guy Harris guy at sun.uucp
Thu Jun 19 03:26:01 AEST 1986


> That is because the runtime library wants to know if the file is associated
> with a terminal (so that it can be unbuffered output in BSD or line
> buffered in SV.2).

Not quite.  Line buffering was introduced either in 4.1BSD or even earlier.
The USDL picked up the Berkeley implementation and dropped it into S5 in
S5R2.
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