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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,
by 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 agoYup. 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.