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  From: Glen Turner <glen.turner@adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:33:02 +0930

Re: Linux on a 386

Mark Newton wrote:
> 
> Paul Schulz wrote:
> 
>  > Virtual Terminals (Alt-F1, Alt-F2, etc) - OK, everybody knows about
>  > this, but's it's something uniquie to Linux.
> 
> It isn't actually.  SCO was doing it years before Linux had even been
> thought of.

As were IBM mainframes -- the SysReq key on the keyboard was copied
from IBM's 3279 terminal to allow switching between applications
and operating systems.

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