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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Dan Espen   
   Re: Inside an IBM z17   
   05 May 25 22:23:55   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 05 May 2025 11:31:55 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:   
      
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro  writes:   
   >   
   >> On Sun, 4 May 2025 20:53:42 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> You should check out Martin's "Design of Real-Time Computer Systems"   
   >>> which was written in the early days of SAABRE and other transaction   
   >>> processing systems.   
   >>   
   >> Their idea of “real time” was responding in a few seconds, before the   
   >> user got frustrated enough to hit SEND again.   
   >   
   > My experience: 360/30, 64K, 1968, locally attached 2260s, BTAM   
   > application, instantaneous response.   
      
   “Instantaneous” to every keystroke? In something like a full-screen   
   editor?   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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