On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 17:06 -0800, Gary Winiger wrote:
> I don't recall a graphical Multics solution,
I had only minimal exposure to Multics -- everything seemed to be good
old ASCII terminals.
> though the serial one to DockMaster was fun.
So the one I was familiar with on MIT-MULTICS (10.0.0.6, back when 10/8
was public address space and DNS was being rolled out) was that dropping
DTR (the RS232 Data Terminal Ready signal) disconnected anything holding
the terminal open, leaving it out of reach of anything but the Answering
Service (the thing that logged you in).
I don't recall whether this killed off your session or whether you could
reattach to it after reauthenticating and pick up where you left off.
I guess the moral equivalent today would be unplugging your keyboard or
mouse :-)
- Bill
