Re: Multiple Displays vs One Display

["Mark Allen" <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dang it all guys, every time my therapist almost gets me over the CCP
nightmares (RUC and assignment set anyone) somebody has to bring it back up,
but yeah the SRT is similar in my mind also to web pages, see the System/3
was AHEAD of its time................

On 11/1/07, Peter Dow (ML) <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> Way back when I first started working on the Sys3 Mod15D they had CCP (I
> think it was Communications Control Program), and there were two
> recommendations - SRT and MRT programs.  The idea SRT (Single Requesting
> Terminal?)  was for the program to quickly display a screen that
> contained the name of the next  program that would process that screen
> embedded as a hidden field.  When the user pressed Enter, the system
> would use that hidden name to call the program and let it process the
> screen.  This meant that while the user was filling in the screen
> fields, there was no program taking up any of the 32KB or whatever
> memory the machine had.  It also meant that programs were small, so that
> when they were in memory, there was room for other programs.
>
> An MRT (Multiple Requesting Terminals?) program was designed to handle
> several users at once.  It had to keep track of the data for each
> requester and respond appropriately when it received a request from that
> user's terminal.
>
> I think of the SRT model a lot when looking at browser-based programs...