[cbd1984]

Eh, most of the fun of alt.folklore.computers is listening to a bunch of geeks who were there from the time CTSS seemed like a novel idea moan about how everything was done before, either by DEC in the 1970s or IBM in the 1960s (or 1950s!). Oh, and DEC, not Digital: The VAX was an abomination and command line technology peaked with TOPS-20, if not TOPS-10.

(Seriously. One of the people I quoted claimed elsewhere, without any hint of irony, that IBM invented personal computing by putting CP-40 on System/360 mainframes, to give everyone their own personal guest system on the shared hardware. Yes, and the Ancient Romans invented radio by reflecting sunlight with mirrors; after all, it's all EM radiation!)