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Article #620718Re: Nostalgia
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:12
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:12
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Dan Espen <dan1...@gmail.com> writes: >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. Yeah, I remember getting our first decwriter to replace the ASR-33; three-times faster was great!
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