siot/cla/cli/its/usr.....

[GLS at MIT-MC (Guy L. Steele, Jr.)]

    From: MOON at MIT-MC (David A. Moon)
From:     	GSB@MIT-ML
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 78 07:00:22 GMT
Original-Date: 04/24/78 03:00:22 EDT
Subject: Re: siot/cla/cli/its/usr.....
    	The best conceptual fix would be for lisp to have a filemode which said
    	'read this file in image [binary] mode but give me the contents in ascii
    	bytes'.  The utility of this for random devices is (i hope) obvious;
    	i don't know, but suspect that it might be meaningful on systems other
    	than ITS.
    I HEARTILY AGREE.
Barf.  There is a way to say IMAGE, but that has nothing to do with the
low bit getting dropped.  The problem is that the CLI/CLA convention is
a piece of shit, and there should be a system call which takes a CLA
channel and returns the names of the interrupter.