Jump to content

;login:

Edit links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 147.147.228.6 (talk) at 23:41, 29 September 2018 ((Reverted edits by 2604:2d80:c02b:8952:b8:17bf:ea3e:a5eb (talk) to last version by Kpgjhpjm) (Tag: rollback)). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

;login: is a long-running technical journal published by the USENIX Association, focusing on the UNIX operating system and system administration in general. It was founded by Mel Ferentz in 1975 as UNIX News, changing its name to ;login: in 1977.[1] Currently, issues from 1997 through the present are available online.

The leading semicolon is a reference to the appearance of the login prompt of early versions of UNIX, where an escape code specific to the Teletype model 37 computer terminal would appear as a semicolon on other models of terminal.[2]

References

  1. ^ Salus, Peter H. (1994). A Quarter Century of UNIX. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. p. 68. ISBN 9780201547771.
  2. ^ Why is there a ";" in ;login:?


Stub icon

This Unix-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub icon

This computer magazine or journal-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

See tips for writing articles about magazines. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=;login:&oldid=861779939"