The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
> On 17/02/2021 08:56, Chris Green wrote:
> > Again the*huge*  advantage of running everything in terminal windows
> > running a (bash) shell is that one is using the same working
> > environment for everything,
>
> that is spurious. I remeber writing in Wordstar, on a PC, uploading to a
> PDP 11, using a terminal emulator on the PC to compile and VI to edit te
> makefile before downloading the code into an in circuit emulators
> pretending to be a 6809 microprocessor ...driving an oscilloscope
>
> Never mind different windows I was working on 4 totally different
> machines...
>
Yes, each a remote connection via a terminal window, at least this
would be the modern idiom for this.

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Chris Green
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