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: No. History is pressing the up arrow to retrieve a previously-typed command (one of a sequence of them in fact) that you can then run again, or edit before submitting. It ''greatly'' improves the productivity and usability of a command-line interface. –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 03:26, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
:: ''History'' shouldn't be limited to the ''up arrow'' key. On earlier VM/CMS systems, system programmers (almost everywhere) added a ROY (by way of a modification to the VM control program [CP]) implementation [of the latter-named RETREIVE function] to the '''SysReq''' key (so as to not preclude taking over any "useful" key
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