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Article #620710Re: Nostalgia
From: Dan Espen
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 02:57
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 02:57
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Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> writes: > On Tue, 2018-02-27, Peter Flass wrote: >> Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote: > ... >>> (Not that I would mind such a discussion. I'd like to know e.g. how >>> programming was affected by sitting at a slow serial terminal in the >>> 1980s.) >> >> Or a card reader in the '60s. > > That too, but I'm personally more interested in the time frame when > tools I use today were created: the Unix shells, C compilers, > vi/Emacs, troff ... I didn't consider a terminal on a 300 baud line slow. Emacs could scroll through a program reasonably fast at that speed. The immediate predecessor to slow terminals was cards. A completely different animal. Any terminal was a good thing, but I never had to spend any time on a paper terminal. -- Dan Espen
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