Re: I know who you mean!
It's NOT about Kodos the Executioner?
Posts by kkt
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BOFH: Is everybody ready for the meeting? Grab a crayon – let's get technical
PDP-10 enthusiasts resurrect ancient MIT operating system
Thursday 22nd June 2017 06:34 GMT
Re: So....
Not useless at all. So much of what we use computers for now is based on those concepts. Mail, moving files around, communicating across the net to do things on an architecture-neutral and manufacturer-neutral network. Transfers fast enough to be useful in minutes, not a nightly batch job.
Thursday 22nd June 2017 06:34 GMT
Re: weirdest UI ever
That's not even the strange part. The strange part is that ANYnoe on the net could telnet in and make an account, and once they were there nothing at all stopped them from reading, changing, or deleting any file on the system. "Security" was a "do you really wanna do that?" message. The strange part is that the environment worked, hardly ever did people abuse this trust.
A different and better time.
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