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Article #620720Re: Nostalgia
From: Dan Espen
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 12:36
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 12:36
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Walter Bushell <pr...@panix.com> writes: > In article <p77q5t$tv2$2...@dont-email.me>, > Dan Espen <dan1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. > > You never had tto develop a program on a Teletype? > > What kind of programmer are you? I'd say one that was pretty fortunate. More so, I'd refuse to compromise. When I was shown a Unix terminal and "ed" I knew I could do better and I hunted down a copy of Emacs. More than 90% of my experience has been with IBM mainframes. IBM has it's problems but Teletypes aren't one of them. -- Dan Espen
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