Re: Multiple Displays vs One Display

["Mark Allen" <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx>]

That should be RUF (Read under Format)

On 11/1/07, Mark Allen <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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...