From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: Keyboard input
Date: 24 Sep 90 08:58:45 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3808@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2166@sparko.gwu.edu
In article <2166@sparko.gwu.edu>, mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:
[about signle-keystroke input]
> I'm not sure what you mean by "it isn't Ada or portable." If you mean that
> it should have been included as a standard I/O package, you may be right;
> I think I'd agree.
I would like to know how such a package could be implemented under CMS
or TSO. (Any "power of 2" fan know what CANDE will let you do these days?)
IBM's operating systems really don't believe in character transput to
terminals. Perhaps IBM _ought_ to be ignored, but _could_ it have been?
--
Heuer's Law: Any feature is a bug unless it can be turned off.
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1990-09-18 20:32 Keyboard input Gregory M. Stelmack
1990-09-19 19:27 ` Terry J. Westley
1990-09-20 20:29 ` Gregory M. Stelmack
1990-09-20 23:20 ` Charles H. Sampson
1990-09-21 17:50 ` Andy DeFaria
1990-09-22 20:13 ` Michael Feldman
1990-09-24 8:58 ` Richard A. O'Keefe [this message]
1990-09-24 13:58 ` Michael Feldman
1990-09-24 16:27 ` Keyboard input on IBM mainframes Jerry Callen
1990-09-24 17:44 ` Ada " Michael Feldman
1990-09-26 13:16 ` ryer
1990-09-26 0:16 ` Keyboard input Chris Holl @adonna
1990-09-22 0:21 ` Naasif Gierdien
1990-09-22 0:25 ` Naasif Gierdien
1990-09-24 16:18 ` Andy DeFaria
1990-09-25 14:11 ` Edward Falis
1990-09-25 15:10 ` Michael Feldman
1990-09-25 18:13 ` John Prentice
1990-09-25 13:36 ` stt
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1990-09-24 19:00 "EDWARD CRAGG"
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