[ih] Early use of the "Internet" term (1977)

[Vint Cerf]

i learned so much about time-sharing from Morrisey's work - eventually went
to Chicago to go over repairs for some bugs I had found. Everything in
assembly language and reams of 132 column print-outs. 1965-1967.

v


On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 11:53 PM Larry Press <lpress at csudh.edu> wrote:

> > That was QUIKTRAN. I WAS THE SYSTEM ENGINEER IN LOS ANGELES 1965-1967 !
>
> I played with QUIKTRAN back at the T. J. Watson Research Center in
> Yorktown Heights around that time. It was written by John Morrisey
> and was mind-blowing -- a whole different way to program and debug. I also
> played around with JOSS at RAND, but actually did a lot of work using the
> interactive JOVIAL interpreter, TINT, at SDC. You could code and debug
> subroutines using TINT, then compile them using the JOVIAL compiler -- way
> more productive than batch processing programming.
>
> Larry
>


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