From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: scj@yaccman.com (scj@yaccman.com)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:36:41 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] Teletype simulator?
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Does anyone know the author?  I doubt they were at Murray Hill, since
nobody (with the possible exception of Mike Lesk) knew enough about TSO to
be so accurate...


> Steve Johnson:
>
>   This reminds me that someone at BTL threw together a "TSO Shell".  It
> was
>   a wrapper around /bin/sh that slept for 10 seconds before executing each
>   line...
>
> =====
>
> And after each command exited.  Discarding anything typed ahead
> during the sleep, of course.
>
> And printed all-upper-case IEFCRAPNONSENSE messages even when a
> command exited successfully.
>
> I think I still have a copy somewhere.  It dates from the 6/e era,
> so it would need a lot of work to compile and run on a modern system.
> Occasionally I think of converting it to ISO and POSIX even though
> that seems contradictory somehow.
>
> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON
>