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Re:The Birth of Standard Error (2013) by lstamour on Saturday August 01, 2015 @12:57PM (#9987712)
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.
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Re:The Birth of Standard Error (2013) by kjs3 on Saturday August 01, 2015 @08:34PM (#9989247)
On a PDP-11, some sort of line printer. Video terminals weren't common as console devices in those days.
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