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Date:      Sat, 05 May 2001 22:13:54 +0200
From:      Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com>
To:        Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
Cc:        Bill Hickum <yh2789@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How do yo do that cool pipe | trick
Message-ID:  <3AF45F02.8B655D19@eboa.com>
References:  <20010505133534.30774.qmail@web10907.mail.yahoo.com> <003a01c0d56a$fbd342f0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>

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Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> 
> ...
> > What's a terminal?
> 
> A fancy historical name for a keyboard/display combo.

Nah, that would be glass TTY. When I first managed to lay my fingers
on a computer it wasn't actually a computer I layed my hands on.
't was but a terminal.

In the historical sense. Just an end-point. In this case a card
reader and a line printer attached to some DEC PDP-11 mini which
was via modem connected to a CDC 6600 AKA Cyber.

It is true. I wrote my first OO program on hollerith cards
back in '78. When I still had hair ;).

Roelof

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