From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 09:47:58 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] pre-more pager? In-Reply-To: <20171108200222.B6A6F18C0B9@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20171108200222.B6A6F18C0B9@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: On Wed, 8 Nov 2017, Noel Chiappa wrote: > But that's all second-order effects anyway. If one were using a serial > line hooked up to a DZ (and those were common - DH's were _much_ more > expensive, so poor places like my lab at MIT used DZ's), then _every > character printed_ caused an interrupt. So the overhead from printing > each screen-ful of text was orders of magnitude greater than the > overhead of the user's input to get the next screen. Looxury! We had to make do with DJ-11s... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."