Laurie Brown wrote:
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I remember both (Honeywell 120 & Univac 4100 respectively)
Ah, but could you hand punch an IBM card (ie 0,3,8 for comma)?
We also had a comms front-end processor that had core store knitted by women in Hertfordshire? - I don't think that we ever rebooted it although we powered down each night.
And what happened to those advanced operating systems like George 2+ where to discover what jobs (processes) were running you had console command something like MS#DSUP=27
(I really had to stop and look for the keys now that I have a UK keyboard)
Who says that *nix isn't user friendly?
Regards, Dermot
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