On 2017-04-07, rickman  wrote:
> On 4/7/2017 12:24 AM, Robert Riches wrote:
>> On 2017-04-07, rickman  wrote:
>>> On 4/6/2017 3:46 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 06 Apr 2017 19:48:15 +0100, druck wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 06/04/2017 14:06, James Harris wrote:
>>>>>> On 06/04/2017 13:12, Daniel James wrote:
>>>>>>> In article , James Harris wrote:
>>>>>>>> OK. It's a pity Notepad doesn't handle LF-only endings. Would save
>>>>>>>> the hassle. But Wordpad does.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I heartily recommend Notepad++ for code editing on Windows.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Apart from all the other neat things it does, it handles CR/LR/CR+LF
>>>>>>> endings, and can create an output file with any of those.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried Notepad++ years ago but couldn't get used to it. Can't remember
>>>>>> why now.
>>>>>
>>>>> Time to give it another try then.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Notepad is fine for me. Once line wrap is turned off, Notepad will
>>>>>> allow you to jump to a line by number. That's all I really need other
>>>>>> than basic editing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well if you can be happy with Notepad, vi is overkill, ed on a teletype
>>>>> would be the Linux equivalent.
>>>>>
>>>> MS used to have an equivalent - remember edlin?
>>>
>>> Yes, and I also remember entering hex on a keypad.  I don't think I've
>>> ever toggled a bootloader in using toggle switches though.  I'm not
>>> *that* old!
>>
>> In college, when I worked at the campus TV cable head end,
>> professors would call in to schedule tapes (mostly U-matic 3/4"
>> videocassettes) to be played on the cable for their classes, and
>> students could call in to schedule individual showings.  The
>> schedule was kept on a PDP-11, IIRC an 11/23.  When on the first
>> morning shift, one of the duties was to boot up the PDP-11 using
>> toggle switches to get the machine to read the cassette tape that
>> held the program and data.
>
> Seems like an appointment book would have done the job pretty well
> without needing an engineering degree.  lol

The scheduling program had a few requirements that would have
been difficult to meet with an appointment book made from dead
trees:

  1) The scheduling program was accessed by multiple (Hazeltine)
     terminals in different rooms, often simultaneously.

  2) The schedule needed to be updated on the fly during a shift.

  3) The cable had nearly a dozen operating channels fed from
     over a dozen VCRs and a few open-reel (1/2" and 1") video
     tape machines.  The algorithm to determine where/when a
     playback could be scheduled was too complex to be done by
     gray matter without an unacceptably high error rate.

Now, if the Raspberry Pi had been available at that time
(1979-1980), a whole lot more cool stuff could have been done.
(Had to do something to keep the discussion on topic.  :-)

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