From: kkuzba{at}centurytel.net
To: c_echo{at}yahoogroups.com

* Author: Neil Heller
NH>  I always thought CLI was the assembler command for turning
NH>  off user interrupts.  At least that's how I used it in the
NH>  communication programs I've written.  And it worked, too.

    It is.  It stands for CLear Interrupts.  It's a mnemonic.
 I used to use it back when I was programming in ML on the C=64.
 Didn't have any assembly language, but you could use assembler
 mnemonics instead of the sixteen bit code values if you had the
 right monitor cartridge.  I started with HesMon, and later went
 to the SuperSnapshot cart.  I still have notebooks with notes on
 addresses for branching logic and subroutines and program modules.
 Command Line Interface came into use as opposed to GUI when they
 needed handy references for two different systems of interaction.
 You have no idea how refreshing it is to play with ANSI C!  :)
 OOps!  Upon further review, it seems that the term goes back to
 CPM, which I never used, and so remained ignorant.

>  kkuzba{at}centurytel.net   http://home.centurytel.net/kkuzba
>  I need a good draught of Entwash.

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