8 Nov
2017
8 Nov
'17
11:47 p.m.
On Wed, 8 Nov 2017, Noel Chiappa wrote:
But that's all second-order effects anyway. If
one were using a serial
line hooked up to a DZ (and those were common - DH's were _much_ more
expensive, so poor places like my lab at MIT used DZ's), then _every
character printed_ caused an interrupt. So the overhead from printing
each screen-ful of text was orders of magnitude greater than the
overhead of the user's input to get the next screen.
Looxury! We had to make do with DJ-11s...
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."