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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 22:15:01 -0400
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On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 06:52:22 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:54:52 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>
>> Even in the mid 60's, burroughs cobol supported 'ACCEPT' and 'DISPLAY'
>> verbs.
>
>How exciting. That works fine for one terminal; what if you have to work 
>with several?

Interactive mainframe programs were almost always single terminal
only.   N terminals?  N copies of the program.