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The Dec-20

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From: Paul Robinson
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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Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 04:02:02 -0500