9 Sep
2017
9 Sep
'17
7:49 p.m.
TOPS-10 allowed type-ahead, with the caveat that if a program exited
with an error, it would intentionally clear the TTY buffer. Something I
actually sorely miss.
IIRC, the type-ahead buffer was only around 80 characters. If you
exceeded it, it beeped at you ;)
On 9/9/2017 9:04 AM, William Cheswick wrote:
Amen. There were a number of things that really
sucked at the time.
My least favorite: time sharing systems that didn’t allow type-ahead.
Kids these days...
On 9Sep 2017, at 12:34 AM, Steve Johnson
<scj(a)yaccman.com
<mailto:scj@yaccman.com>> wrote:
For people used to that world, "echo hello >hi" was literally jaw
dropping. Many people had to have it explained twice, because they
literally could not conceive of a file being created so easily. I
had worked in the computing center for a couple of years, and
probably gave more than my share of demos to mainframe users...
Steve