Post #1444952
2026-03-08 00:24 UTC
@kentpitman @dougmerritt @wrog @ramin_hal9001 @screwlisp @cdegroot
Yes, right. To all that. One minor point is that the PDP-6/10 had a byte-addressing instruction that was pretty weird (overkill in flexibility, like every PDP-6/10 instruction). So that data packing wasn't all that unreasonable.
I showed up to the TECO world in Jan. 1973 with a gofer programming gig in the Macsyma group. The Datapoint terminals were already there, so I missed the pre-(almost)WYSIWYG days.
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@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-08 02:31
@djl Lucky you; I went through teletypes, and then glass terminals lacking cursor control, before finally being in an environment with cursor control terminals capable of WYSIWYG -- and at that, it was pretty random back then who had heard the pro-WYSIWYG arguments and who had not, so... @kentpitman @wrog @ramin_hal9001 @screwlisp @cdegroot