On 2017, Sep 9, at 9:04 AM, William Cheswick <ches@cheswick.com> wrote:

Amen.  There were a number of things that really sucked at the time.  

My least favorite: time sharing systems that didn’t allow type-ahead.

Kids these days...

On 9Sep 2017, at 12:34 AM, Steve Johnson <scj@yaccman.com> wrote:

For people used to that world, "echo hello >hi" was literally jaw dropping.  Many people had to have it explained twice, because they literally could not conceive of a file being created so easily.  I had worked in the computing center for a couple of years, and probably gave more than my share of demos to mainframe users...

Steve