Re: [COFF] Other OSes?

On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 09:38:12AM -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: I never used Unix on teletypes; when I was using an ASR-35 and a KSR-33 teletype, it was connected to a PDP-8/i and PDP-15/30, although both did have a line editor that was very similar to /bin/ed. (This is why to this day if I'm on a slow link or am running in a reduced rescue environment, I fall back to /bin/ed, not /bin/vi --- my finger macros are more efficient using /bin/ed than /bin/vi.) At least for me, the huge difference that made a difference to how I would use a computer primarily had to do with speed that could be sent from a computer. So even when using a glass tty, if there was 300 or 1200 bps modem between me and the computer, I would be much more likely to use editor scripts --- and certainly, I'd be much more likely to use a line editor than anything curses-oriented, whether it's vim or emacs. I'd also be much more thoughtful about figuring out how to carefully do a global search and replace in a way that wouldn't accidentally make the wrong change. Forcing myself to think for a minute or two about how do clever global search and replaces was well worth it when there was a super-thin pipe between me and the computer. These days, I'll just use emacs's query-replace, which will allow me to approve each change in context, either for each change, or once I'm confident that I got the simple-search-and-replace, or regexp-search-and-replace right, have it do the rest of the changes w/o approval. It's not what you *can't* do with a glass-tty. It's just that with a glass-tty, I'm much more likely to rely on incremental searches of my bash command-line history to execute previous commands, possibly with some changes, because it's more convenient than firing up an editor and creating a shell script. But there have been times, even recently, when I've been stuck behind a slow link (say, because of a crappy hotel network), where I'll find myself reverting, at least partially, to my old teletype / 1200 modem habits. - Ted