Re: Re: Mainframe Interactive Programming

And don't forget the TRS-80 Model 4, on which I was programming terminal
emulation in FORTH ...

On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 7:19 AM, Winchester Terry <
terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yep...sounds like you were "priviliged"...lol

Many of us were still punching our code onto cards back then!


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Oh heck, Terry, we were high-tech! I wish I still had a picture. We
had an Apple II connecting the System/3 to a Series/1 so that we could
use state-of-the-art IBM 3101 terminals for source code entry.

Wow...40 years ago you had "tubes"? Some of us weren't so lucky...lol

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Terry


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Joe Pluta

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On 6/7/2018 2:52 PM, dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

So, for psuedo-conversational programming (as it's called),

you

simply keep all the important stuff in your own communication area

(which

is in-memory) and this maintains state. Of course, you can also keep
(hidden) things on the screen (as you can on the IBM i) but in the 3270
world this takes up screen real estate. So, not recommended. But, you
can keep all screen-type information in a temp storage queue so that it

is

available across screen interactions, too.

I just had a serious 40-year flashback to NEP-MRT programming on the
System/3 model 15D. Get a session ID from the screen and use that to
restore all your session variables.

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I am now officially old.


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