[TUHS] DMD 5620 simulator

[Rob Pike]

I wish we had found a consistent way to manage the client/server (or as we
called it, terminal/host) separation. Every program did it a different way,
with varying levels of success. We didn't push hard enough on it at the
time, but Plan 9 came about in part by thinking about the problem, and to
be honest so did JavaScript.

-rob


On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 11:01 PM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 10:12 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
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>> I have very fond memories of the BLIT terminals, I just liked how much
>> you got out of a serial cable.  Way, way more than anyone else imagined.
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> I think that is a good way to express it.  The client/server paradigm is
> really well considered - what belongs on each side. of the link such that
> the data that actually had to be sent between them is minimum.  It becomes
> a solid demonstration of what you need to get a job done.
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