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From: bandy@lll-lcc.UUcp (Andrew Scott Beals)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: edit sessions via punch cards
Message-ID: <189@lll-lcc.UUcp>
Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 17:23:44 EST
Article-I.D.: lll-lcc.189
Posted: Wed Mar 12 17:23:44 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Mar-86 07:28:42 EST
References: <1629@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Reply-To: bandy@lll-lcc.UUCP (Andrew Scott Beals)
Organization: Lab Comp Center, Lawrence Livermore Labs
Lines: 18
Keywords: TECO, TXO1

In article <1629@decwrl.DEC.COM> moroney@jon.DEC (Mike Moroney) writes:
>  In the dark ages when terminals were very scarce (and used paper, and were
>often 110 baud) a friend of mine, rather than wait for a terminal to become
>free to edit a file, would type all the edit commands on CARDS and submit
>his "edit session" as a batch job!  He almost never screwed up the edit,
>either.

This is what teco was invented to do, on the txo1 (not exactly
correct, but real close -- the first transistorized computer) back
at MIT long long ago.

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