How i fought with hardware and software and succeeded
Jacob Palme · Software Practice and Experience · 1978
Abstract This is the story of the development of a utility program to simplify the writing of programs using alphanumeric display terminals. The basic program is very simple, and most of the programming time was not spent on this, but in a cloak‐and‐dagger game with other hardware and software products involved, trying to induce or cheat these products into doing what was needed, and not perform various unwanted and disruptive ‘niceties’.