Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
what was the nature of this "terminal emulator"? was it something
like a vt100 terminal emulator or something like mux (dmd, 630)?
I think it was something like vt100, imho, linux's tty driver derives a
lot from Linus's work, but I don't feel competent to answer your
question, you can investigate source code to find some evidence that I'm
right or wrong.
Burton Samograd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
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 ;-)
Hmm, the most important part of my answer is my age. I'm 21. I'm just a
student.
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.
No slam was intended by me, just an interesting fact, isn't it?
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.
I can confirm, that my path to the world of plan9 is the same. I still
like Debian, that I used a lot. I still don't like Windows that I use
and have to use a lot. I think, the feeling I experiance when see or
hear about GNU crap is something like sadness. Seems like they loose
that way. That way wich is embodied by Plan9.
--
Victor Nazarov
