From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 13:49:52 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie! In-Reply-To: <9CA2C1B8-50FC-4CDB-BF3D-E922ABDE7464@cheswick.com> References: <043e1f9205ac702c6cf01125a45d44afa956a210@webmail.yaccman.com> <9CA2C1B8-50FC-4CDB-BF3D-E922ABDE7464@cheswick.com> Message-ID: TOPS-10 allowed type-ahead, with the caveat that if a program exited with an error, it would intentionally clear the TTY buffer. Something I actually sorely miss. IIRC, the type-ahead buffer was only around 80 characters. If you exceeded it, it beeped at you ;) On 9/9/2017 9:04 AM, William Cheswick wrote: > 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: