From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:49:14 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH Message-ID: <20170329004914.D997818C083@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> > From: Tim Newsham > Would be great if someone scripted it up to make it dog-simple. But if people just have to press a button (basically), they won't learn anything. I guess I'm not understanding the point of the exercise? To say they have V6 running? So what? All they did was press a button. If it's to experience a retro-computing environment, well, a person who's never used one of these older systems is going to be kind of lost - what are they going to do, type 'ls -ls' and look at the output? Not very illuminating. (On V6, without learning 'ed', they can't even type in a small C program, and compile and run it.) Sorry, I don't mean to be cranky, but I'm not understanding the point. Noel