Re:The Birth of Standard Error (2013)
by kylebgorman on Saturday August 01, 2015 @12:46PM
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But, where did you read standard error during the teletype era? Was it printed to a separate tape?
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On the PDP-11, I'd presume, via video terminal or some kind of typewritten (non-photoset) output? The standard out went to the typesetter then, is my reading of it.
On a PDP-11, some sort of line printer. Video terminals weren't common as console devices in those days.
As I recall, same as today...went to stdout unless you told it otherwise. You'd often send it to the 'console' device, which at the time was something like an AR-33 or LA-180 line printer.