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In article <702562807.F00003@blkcat.UUCP>, Paul.Robinson@f417.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Paul Robinson) writes:
  
> 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.  

I think you might be confusing hardware with software. The wonderful CLI was in
the TOPS-20 OS. I believe it ran on a 10 processor although it was probably
developed for the 20. (Of course, the 20 still had a 10 CPU, but it is my
recollection that TOPS-20 ran on older KA and KI CPUs and not just on those
hybrid systems dubbed DECsystem 20s.

R. Kevin Oberman			Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Internet: oberman1@llnl.gov		(510) 422-6955

Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing
and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.