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Article #40The Dec-20
From: Paul Robinson
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 09:02
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 09:02
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> From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov) > Newsgroups: comp.org.decus > Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208 > > In article <1992Mar11.184149.16362@tin.monsanto.com>, lesnyd@monsanto.c > om (Larry Snyder) writes: >> >> When I said I disagreed with the statement that the DECSYSTEM-20 was >> an improved DECsystem-10, I was talking about 2 levels: >> > But in my personal opinion, the DEC-20 had the nicest command > line interface of any system that I have ever used.... > Compuserve runs on DEC 10s and I've used DEC 10s. The CLI is lousy. The 20 does very nice. I had the opportunity to work on one for three weeks. If windowing hadn't come around, THAT was the standard to write CLIs for! The CLI for the DEC-20 was totally stolen by Kermit. Nobody has ever, in my not-so-humble opinion, ever developed a command line interface that was even close to the power and ease of use of the DECsystem 20.
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From: Paul.Robinson@f417.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Paul Robinson) Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!blkcat!Uucp Newsgroups: comp.org.decus Subject: The Dec-20 Message-ID: <702562807.F00003@blkcat.UUCP> Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 04:02:02 -0500