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arethuza on June 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Kay on the Meaning of "Object-Oriented Programming...

I think the Burroughs CANDE shell was by far the worst user environment I have every used on any system - the only nice thing (at least for Tron fans) being at least things were being fed to the MCP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_MCP

russell on June 7, 2011 [–]

In those days everything was terrible. We had to deal with 360 JCL an similar abominations. You couldnt dignify them with the term shell. It was timesharing and ultimately Unix that liberated us.

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