25 Mar
2016
25 Mar
'16
2:36 a.m.
Does anyone know the author? I doubt they were at Murray Hill, since
nobody (with the possible exception of Mike Lesk) knew enough about TSO to
be so accurate...
Steve Johnson:
This reminds me that someone at BTL threw together a "TSO Shell". It
was
a wrapper around /bin/sh that slept for 10 seconds before executing each
line...
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And after each command exited. Discarding anything typed ahead
during the sleep, of course.
And printed all-upper-case IEFCRAPNONSENSE messages even when a
command exited successfully.
I think I still have a copy somewhere. It dates from the 6/e era,
so it would need a lot of work to compile and run on a modern system.
Occasionally I think of converting it to ISO and POSIX even though
that seems contradictory somehow.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON