On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Erik E. Fair wrote:

> The old model of UNIX said, "you have a console display with a human
> operator monitoring it who will deal with system notifications."

Well, no, not exactly. The old model (at least in my day, which
was not so long ago!) said `you have a console DECWriter with a
human operator looking at the printout once in a while.' :-)

cjs

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