[TUHS] Re: DMD 5620 simulator

[Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>]

Huh, I thought it was less ad-hoc than that.  I never had access to the 
source but you could look at what you could do on that terminal and you
just knew that people had put some thought into making high level 
commands that knew what the terminal could do.  

It was a cool idea.  Like anything, you look back and see what you could
have done better, but it was still a cool idea, a big leap ahead from
just a dumb terminal.

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 10:23:31AM +1000, Rob Pike wrote:
> I wish we had found a consistent way to manage the client/server (or as we
> called it, terminal/host) separation. Every program did it a different way,
> with varying levels of success. We didn't push hard enough on it at the
> time, but Plan 9 came about in part by thinking about the problem, and to
> be honest so did JavaScript.
> 
> -rob
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 11:01 PM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 10:12 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I have very fond memories of the BLIT terminals, I just liked how much
> >> you got out of a serial cable.  Way, way more than anyone else imagined.
> >>
> >
> > I think that is a good way to express it.  The client/server paradigm is
> > really well considered - what belongs on each side. of the link such that
> > the data that actually had to be sent between them is minimum.  It becomes
> > a solid demonstration of what you need to get a job done.
> > ???
> >

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