Burton Samograd wrote:
I've been hearing this "terminal emulator" story quite a bit lately
(over the past couple of months), and, althought I do dislike talking
part in such arguments, the story that I've always heard (circa '94)
was that linux was the result of wanting to try out the protected mode
features of his spiffy new '386, which I assume that minix didn't
support.
There is no offense for linux to start as a terminal emulator.
And Linus confirms that. And this fact doesn't contradict with
your point (" wanting to try out the protected mode features
of his spiffy new '386, which I assume that minix didn't support").
Why do you want to reject this terminal emulator origins?
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Victor Nazarov
