POSIX bashing

[Martin Weitzel]

In article <130073 at uunet.UU.NET> rbj at uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes:

>Besides, I also mentioned putting a small subset of termcap
>into the kernel. The tty driver will do the best it can
>with the information it has.

Wild guess: If CRT-terminals with cursor adressing capability were in
widespread use in the days Thompson and Ritchie started out with UNIX,
we would have lseek(2) (resp. seek(2)) defined for serial lines too.
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