[TUHS] Minimum Array Sizes in 16 bit C (was Maximum)

[Marc Donner]

RSCS.  Sigh.  Remote Spooling Communications Subsystem.

I suppose I could praise it for its elegant layering of abstractions ...
just send a virtual card deck to the virtual card reader on the virtual
machine being used by your correspondent.

Or I could curse it for its absurdity - really, a virtual card deck?   80
character EBCDIC records.

An amazing concept.
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On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 4:43 PM Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 2:27 AM <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:
> > Rik Farrow <rik at rikfarrow.com> wrote:
> > > And my comment about seeing code produced by programmers while doing
> sales
> > > support dates from 1990. This isn't something new,
> >
> > Also true. In the late 80s I was a sysadmin at Emory U. We had a
> > Vax connected to BITNET with funky hardware and UREP, the Unix RSCS
> > Emulation Program, from the University of Pennsylvania. Every time
> > I had to dive into that code, I felt like I needed a shower afterwards.
> :-)
>
> Uh oh, lest the UPenn alumni among us get angry (high, Ron!) I feel I
> must point out that UREP wasn't from the University of Pennsylvania,
> but rather, from The Pennsylvania State University (yes, "The" is part
> of the name). UPenn (upenn.edu) is an Ivy in Philly; Penn State
> (psu.edu) is a state school in University Park, which is next to State
> College (really, that's the name of the town) with satellite campuses
> scattered around the state.
>
>         - Dan C.
>
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