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by IIsi50MHz
1254 days ago
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PDP-11? Closest mine had was a minicomputer with "Word Perfect 1.0 for UNIX" and 40 orange plasma dumb-terminals. And the best commandline spellchecker I've seen. WP's was…terse, like most (all?) word processors: three to five often-wrong suggestions. The unrelated commandline tool _appeared_ dump the entire dictionary one instant screenful at a time, sorted by nearest match. We didn't have the magic/more-magic switch from {ahem} a certain machine, but if you hit the lowest-leftmost key on the terminal keyboard, you got dumped to shell (and lost whatever you hadn't saved). This was all after I was cured of "hating computers" by my dad bringing home an SE/30 (I know: sacrilege to TUI lovers). Upgraded to a IIsi with 5 MB RAM and we LIKED^H^H^H^H^Htolerated it. At least they both let me SM 0 A9F4<enter>G 0<enter> when I wanted to C-z a program (only _sometimes_ because I'd just written the offending bug). |
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