alt Hacker NewsThe amount of code was relatively low.
Not the million line codebases we have today. 50-100 lines was the usual program or script.
The amount of code was relatively low.
Not the million line codebases we have today. 50-100 lines was the usual program or script.
iirc they were initially using actual ttys(as in typewriters) and the input delay was hell which is the reason so many UNIX commands are two letters.
So likely they would work on the printout:
And then input the corrections into ed(1).