From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ches@cheswick.com (William Cheswick) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 09:04:59 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie! In-Reply-To: <043e1f9205ac702c6cf01125a45d44afa956a210@webmail.yaccman.com> References: <043e1f9205ac702c6cf01125a45d44afa956a210@webmail.yaccman.com> Message-ID: <9CA2C1B8-50FC-4CDB-BF3D-E922ABDE7464@cheswick.com> Amen. There were a number of things that really sucked at the time. My least favorite: time sharing systems that didn’t allow type-ahead. Kids these days... > On 9Sep 2017, at 12:34 AM, Steve Johnson wrote: > > For people used to that world, "echo hello >hi" was literally jaw dropping. Many people had to have it explained twice, because they literally could not conceive of a file being created so easily. I had worked in the computing center for a couple of years, and probably gave more than my share of demos to mainframe users... > > Steve -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: