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Started by x04... Butch Kemper
Fri, 27 Apr 1990 15:45
WYLBUR Usage
Author: x04... Butch Kemper
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 1990 15:45
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 1990 15:45
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Organization: Texas A&M University WYLBUR is alive and well at the Computing Services Center, Texas A&M University. For those who don't know, WYLBUR is a terminal editing system developed at Stanford University in the early 70's. It was distributed by Stanford and also sold commercially by several companies. At Texas A&M University, WYLBUR was installed in 1977 to begin the process of replacing cards, keypunches, and card readers. During the early 80's, we had 400+ users logged into WYLBUR running on an AMDAHL 470V/8 and using ASCII terminals in line mode. The users were creating job streams, submitting them for batch execution, reviewing the output on the terminal, and releasing the output for printing. Today, WYLBUR runs on 3270 terminals with a full screen editor. Using the EXEC language to build macros, many administrative applications have automated production job streams by allowing terminal operators to select processing options before submitting the jobs. In addition to the Administrative Development Programmers, there are large groups of students using WYLBUR in an engineering class that is teaching FORTRAN. WYLBUR usage has shrunk to 100-150 active users and will continue for years to come. Butch Kemper
Re: WYLBUR Usage
Author: land... Doug Landauer
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 1990 17:32
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 1990 17:32
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> For those who don't know, WYLBUR is a terminal editing system developed at > Stanford University in the early 70's. I seem to recall vaguely that WYLBUR was an acronym. If so, does anyone remember what it stands for?
Re: WYLBUR Usage
Author: es... Elliott S. Frank
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 1990 18:39
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 1990 18:39
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In article <134...@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> landauer@sun.UUCP (Doug Landauer) writes:
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>I seem to recall vaguely that WYLBUR was an acronym. If so, does anyone
>remember what it stands for?
For that matter, for what was ORVYLE (and various other Wright brothers)
an acronym? [I dimly remember being on the receiving end of an entire
genealogy of Wright brothers (and a sister (?)) when asking one of the
sysprogs at Columbia (which was running WYLBUR at the time) how slot A
fitted into tab B.]
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