>>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?
what was the nature of this "terminal emulator"? was it something
like a vt100 terminal emulator or something like mux (dmd, 630)?
