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Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn

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Subject Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn
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On 2025-11-18 09:11, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 08:49:31 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> 
>> At some point, the VAX became very slow, maybe 10 seconds before the
>> cursor moved. Imagine doing a compile, getting a trivial error, open the
>> editor, count the lines and columns to get to the place, and doing the
>> edit blind. Then wait for the machine to do it.
>>
>> No time to explore.
> 
> Were you able to get access to terminals after hours? Things would be much
> quieter then, when all the “normal” students were asleep, or away
> partying, or something ;). Great time for the geeks to get a lot of work
> done.

Not me, I don't know about others. You would need to know the 
appropriate people.

No, what I did is buy a computer. Or rather, ask my parents for one :-)

An Amstrad PC 1512 DD.

The student association distributed copies of turbo pascal 2, er, cough, 
gratis. I did our team (we worked in teams of three to a single 
terminal) program (a recursive solution of the 4 colour map) in TP, and 
then asked for help to transfer the source code from a disquete to the 
VAX. Then find and kill the turbo enhancements.

In my computer one of the map solutions took 15 seconds, perhaps. The 
vax, which was very slow to respond to the keyboard, solved it in under 
a second.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-11-14 19:11 +0000
  Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-11-14 19:43 +0000
    Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-14 20:11 +0000
  Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-11-15 10:34 +0000
    Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-15 22:35 +0000
      Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-17 13:00 +0100
        Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-11-17 12:01 -0500
        Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-18 01:06 +0000
          Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-18 07:25 +0100
            Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-18 07:20 +0000
              Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-18 08:49 +0100
                Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-18 08:11 +0000
                Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-18 17:46 +0100
  Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2025-11-15 14:03 +0200

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