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VMS systems on LAT networks only received a packet/interrupt per line from the terminal, that’s how they were able to support many times more users than Unix co
by goatinaboat 7y ago
VMS systems on LAT networks only received a packet/interrupt per line from the terminal, that’s how they were able to support many times more users than Unix contemporaries.
- gumby 7y agoUnix can be configured this way —- it used to be the default, with # as the rubout character and @ the line delete character. It’s still in the tty driver and can be useful when programming from a teletype (tty)
- goatinaboat 7y agoI learnt something today - thanks. I’ve never seen a Unix system configured like that, in over 25 years of doing this!
- m463 7y agothank goodness. I remember it was common that the login screen on a terminal would be configured for # as backspace while backspace would actually DO a backspace but be entered into the buffer. I suspect it was a remnant of hardcopy terminals
- gumby 7y agoThat system was inherited from Multics, but the limited number of interactive computers in those days were primarily used from printing terminals which couldn’t actually erase a character so all of them had some such facility.