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It was really cool and fun even though a simple green terminal screen. I had one in front of me and one in back of me. The one in back was typically logged in a
by larrys 12y ago
It was really cool and fun even though a simple green terminal screen. I had one in front of me and one in back of me. The one in back was typically logged in as root. (Was an office with a lock and a small enough place that I didn't have to worry about anyone knowing what that was..) Hard drive was 70mb with 4mb of memory. And a tape drive for backup. (System was perhaps 30k in 80's dollars iirc approx etc.)
That said right now I'm staring at 3 Thunderbolt displays hooked up to a Mac Pro with over 25 terminal windows going. All in different colors. (Well actually not different colors for all of them).
But using even the simple green screen was really cool. Definitely got a buzz using that system.
I remember the first test to show that it was "multi user". I put two of the terminals next to each other, hit return at the same time, and ran two things at concurrently. (Might have been ls -Rlt / or something like that.)
- vram22 12y ago>Might have been ls -Rlt / or something like that. Ha, I used to do that sometimes, to make long-running disk I/O happen so that I could check something or the other that needed the I/O happening. Redirecting a process's output to /dev/null and putting it in the background with & can also be useful for many things.