[ih] cut and paste

[Michael Thomas]

On 8/7/23 6:18 PM, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Internet-history 
wrote:
> ^C on Tenex (and Tops-10) got you out of whatever program you were in and
> summarily returned you to the EXEC (@) or Monitor(.) on Tops-10
>
> if you wanna trip down memory lane:
> ssh menu at tty.LivingComputers.org
>
> :D

That was true of both Unix and DEC OS's. With Unix, you had to go into 
raw vs baked mode which was possible with DEC OS's too, afaik (VMS had 
that ability too). So strictly speaking you could use ^C for editors too.

Mike