> 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?I don't want to reject it, it just sounds like a bit of a slam, since I generally don't hear much good about linux on lists such as this. Without linux I wouldn't have ever had a chance to really learn unix, would have never had a reason to check out plan9 and even have an iota of understanding about why it's such a great evolution over the original unix. I know linux isn't the best but it sure gets picked on a lot, especially around these groups. Us kids (well, I'm 31 today, but I still feel like a kid around these circles) never got to grow up with unix and linux let us learn, so it still has a place near my heart, warts, cancerous growths and all ;-) -- burton samograd [EMAIL PROTECTED] kruhft.blogspot.com www.myspace.com/kruhft metashell.blogspot.com
