1 Feb
2018
1 Feb
'18
10:01 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
Just a wild-ass guess, but I suspect that a typical CDC 6600 system would
have had a printer that logged console interaction? I'm only suggesting
that a CRT console with no logging was a bad idea.
Of course, in principle the logging could be to disk or tape, but I don't
think most "machine-room" people would have trusted that nearly as much for
a console log. One wants a log of what happened on the console even when
the system was not working well.
On Feb 1,
2018, at 12:51 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
console terminal [...] VT52. (It was not good
practice to use a CRT as the system console, IMO.)
As for CRTs, it all depends on the design assumptions. Lots of operating
system console interfaces are designed on the assumption you have hardcopy
consoles, and if so a CRT is a bad idea. But you can certainly make CRT
consoles and have it work -- consider the CDC 6000 series.