From: Vadim Antonov avg@postman.ncube.com
Subject: Set User (aka su)
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 02:59:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19950821065952.-xC593CpV2mOr7V5KDZfqkfsXOu_kcAEUdsrTiwAcUI@z> (raw)
Vadim Antonov writes:
> often what goes for minimalism is simply shifting complexity from
> one place to another, or having a user to deal with inconvinient
> interfaces (like, i can't really use Plan9 system as my workstation
> exactly because i can't telnet from it and do anything useful
> because it lacks emulation of a reasonably simple alphanumeric
> terminal, including (horror!) direct positioning).
>hp
>telnet
hp takes 100+ Kb to implement something which could be
done in fifty bytes of code in 81/2, scrolls awfully slowly
and does not handle resizing properly.
I.e. not implementing a display instead of a typewriter in
81/2 simply moved the complexity to other place (hp) and
made user interface incoherent (can't call sam in the same
window as telnet!)
If you call *that* minimalism i'm the Pope.
--vadim
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