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Article #620713Re: Nostalgia
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:12
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:12
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Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> writes: >On Thu, 2018-03-01, Dan Espen wrote: >> 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. > >Still, you must have been forced to keep more context in your head >than today? Or did you design everything with pencil and paper >beforehand? Using a decwriter, history was always just up the page. I still miss being able to go back and see exactly what I was doing hours earlier :=)
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