1 Apr
2004
1 Apr
'04
6:20 a.m.
Mark Firestone <pdp11_70(a)retrobbs.org> wrote:
Using the Internet should require a license. You
should have to be able to
log into a Unix (or any other non PC-DOS/MS-DOS text based OS shell) and be
able to check your email with a text based email program, and view a website
with a text based browser, and log out again, or write a simple DCL script
without the manual.
This would eliminate all Internet congestion over night, and us geeks could
have our toy back.
YES!!! Full agreement!
-MS, who is typing this on a VT320 logged into UNIX on a VAX and sending it with
the original Berkeley Mail program, and who does NOT own or have a PeeCee, has
NO graphics capability at all at the present, and has NO web access except with
Lynx.
And guess what, my Spartan setup is perfectly sufficient for my current project
of designing a new VAX chip! Nothing beats writing Verilog for a VAX CPU in vi
on a VT320.