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In article <1992Apr6.080457.1@ptavv.llnl.gov>, oberman@ptavv.llnl.gov writes:
> 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....
> 
> I think you might be confusing hardware with software. The wonderful CLI was in
> the TOPS-20 OS.

Also, as I recall, while it is true that Compuserve is based on DEC
10's, the operating system is pretty close to custom. It is not a
standard TOPS-10/TOPS-20/Tenex/Twenex.

A number of years ago, I was talking to some people who were going to
work very closely with Compuserve in porting their games from Unix to
Compuserve. Having TOPS-10 experience, I offered my services and was
told that the Compuserve environment was so heavily modified that my
experience didn't count.


As an aside, we VMSers got the 39.39 character filenames and a few
other things from TOPS-20, now if they'd just bring over command
completion and inline prompting we'd be set :-)

--- Tom
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