On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 9:02 AM Philip Hands <[email protected]> wrote: > > David Niklas <[email protected]> writes: > > > https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/command-not-found > > > > Dear luke, > > You didn't need email, you can use wall(1). > > That dredges up memories of supporting users (via 1200 baud modem, thus > occupying the only land line) by communicating via write(1) in each > direction, which then lead to the memory of the joy of discovering > talk(1) as a better alternative.
ha, i remember that. and trying to write a better alternative (multi-user, tokenring style) as a way to learn c, except i didn't use select and on trying to kill it, it left a zombie process running at 100% CPU on the SunOS 4.1.3 minicomputer. as it was during the inter-term break, i went to see one of the sysadmins in the Imperial College Dept of Computing to sort it out. he was later severely told off for rebooting the machine. > Thanks for the moment of Proustian nostalgia. :-) :) l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
