bandy@lll-lcc.UUcp (Andrew Scott Beals) (03/13/86)
In article <1629@decwrl.DEC.COM> moroney@jon.DEC (Mike Moroney) writes: > In the dark ages when terminals were very scarce (and used paper, and were >often 110 baud) a friend of mine, rather than wait for a terminal to become >free to edit a file, would type all the edit commands on CARDS and submit >his "edit session" as a batch job! He almost never screwed up the edit, >either. This is what teco was invented to do, on the txo1 (not exactly correct, but real close -- the first transistorized computer) back at MIT long long ago. Followup-To: net.computers.ancient.history -- I'm PROUD to be a CARBON-BASED lifeform! andy beals bandy@lll-crg.arpa {ihnp4,seismo,ll-xn,qantel,sun}!lll-crg!bandy LLNL, P.O. Box 808, L-419, Livermore CA 94550 (415) 423-1948
rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) (03/20/86)
>In article <1629@decwrl.DEC.COM> moroney@jon.DEC (Mike Moroney) writes: > In the dark ages when terminals were very scarce (and used paper, and were >often 110 baud) a friend of mine, rather than wait for a terminal to become >free to edit a file, would type all the edit commands on CARDS and submit >his "edit session" as a batch job! He almost never screwed up the edit, >either. In the ?light? ages (1979) I took a co-op job with a Naval R&D outfit. They ran off computers several hundred miles away in Eglin AFB, Florida; big CDC monsters running NOS/BE, the BE standing for Batch Environment. We could only input our jobs with cards, and the only 'editor' was a card-based system called "update"; with which you could only delete and insert full card images. Thank God I only worked in that section for three weeks before getting a *real* assignment!! -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3313 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd allegra ]!burl!rcj ...![ ihnp4 cbosgd decvax watmath ]!clyde!rcj