Sujet : Re: Inside an IBM z17
De : rich (at) *nospam* example.invalid (Rich)
Groupes : comp.miscDate : 06. May 2025, 15:15:45
Autres entêtes
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Dan Espen <
dan1espen@gmail.com> wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
On Mon, 05 May 2025 11:31:55 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
On Sun, 4 May 2025 20:53:42 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:
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You should check out Martin's "Design of Real-Time Computer Systems"
which was written in the early days of SAABRE and other transaction
processing systems.
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Their idea of “real time” was responding in a few seconds, before the
user got frustrated enough to hit SEND again.
My experience: 360/30, 64K, 1968, locally attached 2260s, BTAM
application, instantaneous response.
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“Instantaneous” to every keystroke? In something like a full-screen
editor?
Huh?
What about block mode terminals don't you understand?
Of course it's instantaneous to every keystroke. And in this case
it was also instantaneous to the enter key. First online
app I developed. Online order entry.
Lawrence is more often trolling than not.