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Article #624994Re: The history of the MONITOR tops-10)
From: Sarr Blumson
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 19:45
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 19:45
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John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> Wrote in message: > > I could have done without the sequence numbers > with the flag in the low bit of the word, though. That was a convention of some apps, eg BASIC and the line editor whose name I can't remember. TOPS-10 neither new or cared. > Of course, even TOPS-10 was a pig compared to DTSS which ran on a GE > 635, about the same speed as a KA-10, with a very slow front end > terminal mux (sort of like a 680) and provided good performance to 100 > users. The 635 was a piece of junk, but it was much faster than the KA. And the campus environment was very forgiving. We got good performance with 40 users on the 265; twice what it could manage in commercial environments. Dartmouth users were doing simpler things. And they could sit and think because they didn't get bills. Comparing the Datanet 30 to a 680 is an arcane argument that I'm not qualified to get into. Sarr -- ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/
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