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From: Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com>
To: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] head/sed/tail (was The Unix shell: a 50-year view)
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 16:18:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+r1Zhgmf8zbBiztO3Ab1H7Hd7HZQZxqTbTRahtXWfowC=A4qQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.95.0.1626387969.beebe@gamma.math.utah.edu>

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 3:27 PM Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu> wrote:

> Our campus had an 1108 at the
> University of Utah Computer Center, but I chose to avoid it, because
> it was run in batch mode with punched cards, and never got networking.

It was a terrible beast.  One place to submit card decks +
undergraduate procrastination was an unhappy combination.   Later
there was a crude form a timesharing grafted on to it, with some very
shrill terminals attached.  The details are mercifully vague but I
think you basically had a 'session' and whatever files you created in
that session didn't persist once you'd logged out.

I remember trying to use the C compiler on that DEC-20 but never got
very far with it; I thought the SAIL compiler was more interesting.
Shows what foresight I had...
-- 
Jim (op.davis@science.utah.edu, iirc)

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-15 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-15 22:26 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-07-15 23:18 ` Jim Davis [this message]
2021-07-16  0:02   ` John Floren
2021-07-16  1:02     ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-07-16  8:27     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-07-16 15:28       ` John Floren
2021-07-16  0:02 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-16  0:25   ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-07-16  8:50     ` Lars Brinkhoff
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-07-18 20:07 Douglas McIlroy
     [not found] <CAKH6PiW58PDPb5HRi12aKE+mT+O8AjETr9R51Db6U3KcEp_KkA@mail.gmail.com>
2021-07-16 14:17 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-07-16 16:13   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-16 12:09 Douglas McIlroy
2021-07-16 14:32 ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-15 22:00 Douglas McIlroy
2021-07-15 22:12 ` John Cowan
2021-07-15 21:26 Paul Ruizendaal
2021-07-15 19:01 Norman Wilson
2021-07-15 19:27 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-15 19:28   ` Clem Cole
2021-07-15 19:34   ` Warner Losh
2021-07-16  7:38     ` arnold
2021-07-16 16:09       ` Warner Losh
2021-07-16  8:05   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-07-16 14:19     ` Clem Cole
2021-07-17  0:34       ` Charles Anthony
2021-07-15 16:54 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-07-15 15:44 Norman Wilson
2021-07-15  2:38 Douglas McIlroy
2021-07-15  4:19 ` arnold
2021-07-15  4:25   ` Adam Thornton
2021-07-15  7:20   ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-07-15 14:28 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-15 22:29 ` Bakul Shah

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