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On “How did people write C using line editors?”
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1. Have you ever used a printer with continuous-feed paper, like a dot-matrix or daisy-wheel? Yes, you could change it, but you tried not to.
2. Yes.
3. You would consider it interminably slow. And loud.
4. Yes.
Glass terminals hit the tipping point where they began to be cheaper than teletypes in 1974. Like any other disruptive innovation, within a few years they had become predominant by far. Faster, cheaper, more pleasant, zero consumable cost.