i don't miss the vaxen i used to work on with h29 2400 baud "stonet" terminals and often a 1+ minute login time. 2400 baud is slow enough that i used to use ^s/^q as a pager
mt xinu 4.3bvd (sic). - erik On Fri Feb 10 21:03:01 CST 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Many years ago now, a good friend of mine remarked that > if we actually made all those whining about the state of things > now compared to the "good old days" go back to using v7 Unix, > they would quickly realise that times had actually moved > forward and there were things they were used to that it didn't > have and that they really needed. I used v[567] and I've > ported v7, and I wouldn't go back. From what I understand, > Plan 9 was an attempt to build on that by saying "this got > us so far, but times are changing and it won't cut it with > networks, bitmapped displays, SMP etc, we need a better base". > That was a long time ago and no one has, to my limited > non- computer science knowledge, attempted anything similar, > they're all still working on copying 30 year old technology. > > I don't have an iPod, my mobile phone is 5 years old and I > turn it on about 4 hours a week and there are many things > about the 21st century that make me grumpy. But you can't go > back. You should, however, be careful about how how you > go forward. > > --jim
