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(1984) As in this was literally published then, not some "literally 1984" meme.

• rbanffy 5y ago
  I've actually seen it live. Unix expects teletypes a lot and it was a weird "impedance mismatch" to see it on a 3278.
  • sedatk 5y ago
    So you typed the command to a linebuffer, and pressing "Enter" would send it through TTY interface, was that it? I wonder how the prompt looked like. EDIT: So, yes, that was apparently how it was like as seen here: https://youtu.be/k56qLxG-sUM?t=1172 https://youtu.be/k56qLxG-sUM?t=1172
    • rbanffy 5y ago
      Yup. IIRC, everything felt paged through `more` and you had to hit PF3 to move to the next page. It was interesting though that this approach allows the mainframe to work continuously where a more traditional Unix machine would get a hardware interrupt every time any of its users pressed a key.