On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > On Feb 1, 2018, at 12:51 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > console terminal [...] VT52. (It was not good > > practice to use a CRT as the system console, IMO.) > > As for CRTs, it all depends on the design assumptions. Lots of operating > system console interfaces are designed on the assumption you have hardcopy > consoles, and if so a CRT is a bad idea. But you can certainly make CRT > consoles and have it work -- consider the CDC 6000 series. > Just a wild-ass guess, but I suspect that a typical CDC 6600 system would have had a printer that logged console interaction? I'm only suggesting that a CRT console with no logging was a bad idea. Of course, in principle the logging could be to disk or tape, but I don't think most "machine-room" people would have trusted that nearly as much for a console log. One wants a log of what happened on the console even when the system was not working well.
