[TUHS] head/sed/tail (was The Unix shell: a 50-year view)

[Jim Davis]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 3:27 PM Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu> wrote:

> Our campus had an 1108 at the
> University of Utah Computer Center, but I chose to avoid it, because
> it was run in batch mode with punched cards, and never got networking.

It was a terrible beast.  One place to submit card decks +
undergraduate procrastination was an unhappy combination.   Later
there was a crude form a timesharing grafted on to it, with some very
shrill terminals attached.  The details are mercifully vague but I
think you basically had a 'session' and whatever files you created in
that session didn't persist once you'd logged out.

I remember trying to use the C compiler on that DEC-20 but never got
very far with it; I thought the SAIL compiler was more interesting.
Shows what foresight I had...
-- 
Jim (op.davis at science.utah.edu, iirc)