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From: "Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: the legacy of Seymour Cray
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 19:40:16 -0400
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"Peter Flass" <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
> We used to use the console switches on the 1130 for this.  The operator
> might flip a switch to request optional output or, for example, month-end
> processing.  This kind of thing is really only useful on a single-task
> dedicated machine.

...or a multi-tasking machine where the programs were designed to use 
different switches.

Joe