Don't remember every touching a 3215 but my first exposure to VM was with a 2741
(?) low speed typewriter style terminal, iirc, at the QC Lab in RTP with Alex
Scianna. At the time, CP couldn't graciously switch from a 2741 to a 3270 (?) so
we wrote IAMA3270 and IAMA2741 to use as we were forced to switch between them
in the terminal room when I later worked in Diagnostic Engineering.
Still, the *design* of VM wasn't centered on the limitations of the terminal, as
Unix is.
Les
Chip Davis wrote:
Careful there, Les. Remember that your VM console is still a 3215... ;-)
-Chip-
On 8/18/10 18:47 Les Koehler said:
Not to mention the fact that at the very heart of shell scripting and
Unix commands is the idea that the user is sitting at a 33 baud teletype!
Les
zMan wrote:
Jack Woehr wrote:
The Unix manuals are fabulous. They're not corporate expiatiation of
contractual responsibility. They're the heart of the developer being
poured
out in front of you.
I'm not sure "fabulous" would be my description -- "barely usable" is
more like it in far too many cases. The quality varies wildly, and is
very often completely lacking in usable examples. It was over three
decades ago that my father said "My kingdom for an example!" when
trying to use a UNIX man page, and AFAICT, the situation hasn't
changed much.
They may represent the heart of the developer, but (s)he is too often
the wrong person to be documenting the beast -- (s)he *knows* it
inside and out, makes too many assumptions, and may or may not be a
capable writer. There's a reason that technical writers exist, and it
isn't because developers are lazy...
