On 17/02/2021 12:03, Chris Green wrote:
> 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.
>
Not then

we got as far as two apps on a dos PC. but the ice had its own screen
and so did the scope IIRC



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