Speed now & then (Space and time?)

[allison]

On 04/02/2018 01:28 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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>> On Mar 31, 2018, at 6:26 PM, ben via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> But that is the old fly in the ointment, other software may not be avilable. I do run windows and real text screen UNIX is not aviable anymore. 
> Sure it is.  You can perfectly well install Linux without the GUI components, never mind other Unix operating systems like NetBSD which are more oriented towards simple low-overhead deployments.  And my workstations, while they are GUI based, really only serve as text type Unixes with large scroll buffers.
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> 	paul
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That and even the Macbook OS-X will take you to a unix terminal.  IT
runs all the same commands as my Unix-V6 on pdp11.
I'd add the win10/pro has a interface screen that allows a linux/unix
terminal interface.  That made the thing usable!


Allison