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tr173 [2020-12-16 18:07] victortr173 [2021-05-17 17:44] (current) – [6. User's impressions of the Chaosnet/SUPDUP MIT environment] victor
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 a virtual file system is becoming more painful each year, especially to new users. a virtual file system is becoming more painful each year, especially to new users.
  
-  The robustness of Chaosnet, which is the flip-coin side of the simplicity of its design, is unquestionable. In my one year at the AI Lab I do not recall a single instance of the net being down. (Though, I do remember various bridges giving out from time to time, but no more or less often than "normal" PDP-11's.)+The robustness of Chaosnet, which is the flip-coin side of the simplicity of its design, is unquestionable. In my one year at the AI Lab I do not recall a single instance of the net being down. (Though, I do remember various bridges giving out from time to time, but no more or less often than "normal" PDP-11's.)
  
- One also misses the ingenious behavior of SUPDUP once one grows accustomed to the conveniences it provides. Using things called "Emacs" under Unix (or VMS) and Sytek has a positively neolithic feel to it in comparison to Emacsing on Chaosnet under SUPDUP.+One also misses the ingenious behavior of SUPDUP once one grows accustomed to the conveniences it provides. Using things called "Emacs" under Unix (or VMS) and Sytek has a positively neolithic feel to it in comparison to Emacsing on Chaosnet under SUPDUP.
  
 The remote login facility works very nicely, as does the file transfer protocol, provided the two do not go head-to-head in The remote login facility works very nicely, as does the file transfer protocol, provided the two do not go head-to-head in
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