3 Nov
2022
3 Nov
'22
7:47 a.m.
I’m not sure the model 33 required a carriage return delay. At 110
baud it had plenty of time to move the carriage. back.
Other printers (especially faster ones) weren’t so lucky, but the LA36
decwriter had a catchup mode to print the backlog after a return.
The LA120 was boustrophedonic so returns weren’t as much of an issue.
------ Original Message ------
From "John P. Linderman" <jpl.jpl(a)gmail.com>
To jason-tuhs(a)shalott.net
Cc "steve jenkin" <sjenkin(a)canb.auug.org.au>; "TUHS"
<tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
Date 11/2/2022 12:20:12 PM
Subject [TUHS] Re: Early Unix and Keyboard Skills
On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 3:02 PM <jason-tuhs(a)shalott.net> wrote:
Mostly rampant speculation on my part, but with 110 baud modems, 10
characters per second right?,
and added delays for carriage returns, it was the peripherals that
encouraged brevity. Code would be
viewed multiple times, but entered roughly once.
I’ve never heard anyone mention keyboard skills
with the people of
the
CSRC - doesn’t anyone know?
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V05.4.pdf (p23)
History tells us that the guys who designed
[UNIX] did their own
typing
into the machine. It seems to me that because of
this, the main
reason
that UNIX enjoys/suffers from terse input and
output is not through
any
intellectual design decisions made at some early
stage but because
the
UNIX designers were just bad typists working on
slow peripherals.
-Jason