From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: RE: [9fans] Anyone to try to convert Acme to full UI (w/graphics)
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:57:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061024215330.W10700@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ACCF003CBA3D09458207DB0CB86AD17D740262@XMAIL.asuch.cas.cz>
> however, don't you feel that
> a single big command window with probably some king of addressing the
> commands where to go would be more elegant that the taglines?
And thus begat Windows :-(
Acme is good at what it is good for. It sucks at other things. It will
always suck at other things. Just like other things will always suck at
Acme.
But the last weeks list conversations have stirred a sense of nostalgia.
Are there still-working versions of Oberon out there?
--lyndon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-25 4:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-23 7:30 cej
2006-10-23 10:34 ` Alexander Sychev
2006-10-23 11:56 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2006-10-23 12:21 ` Alexander Sychev
2006-10-24 5:55 ` cej
2006-10-24 5:55 ` cej
2006-10-24 15:08 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-10-25 4:31 ` cej
2006-10-25 16:33 ` Joel Salomon
2006-10-25 16:54 ` Russ Cox
2006-10-25 17:21 ` Russ Cox
2006-10-25 17:27 ` erik quanstrom
2006-10-25 17:42 ` Tad Hunt
2006-10-25 18:07 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-10-25 18:19 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-10-25 18:24 ` erik quanstrom
2006-10-25 17:55 ` rog
2006-10-25 18:17 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-10-26 18:13 ` David Leimbach
2006-10-26 18:22 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-10-26 18:30 ` David Leimbach
2006-10-26 18:35 ` rog
2006-10-30 19:05 ` Joel Salomon
2006-10-30 19:34 ` Paul Hebble
2006-10-26 18:24 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-10-26 21:39 ` David Leimbach
2006-10-27 7:00 ` cej
2006-10-27 8:37 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-10-27 11:24 ` erik quanstrom
2006-10-27 14:04 ` Russ Cox
2006-10-28 19:27 ` Paweł Lasek
2006-10-24 15:25 ` Alexander Sychev
2006-10-25 4:29 ` cej
2006-10-25 4:57 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2006-10-25 16:18 ` Joel Salomon
2006-10-30 6:23 ` cej
2006-10-30 6:33 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-10-30 12:56 ` erik quanstrom
2006-10-30 15:16 ` Russ Cox
2006-10-30 15:25 ` Gabriel Diaz
2006-10-30 15:30 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-10-30 16:17 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-10-31 5:33 ` cej
2006-10-31 18:33 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-11-01 6:21 ` cej
2006-10-23 11:10 ` Tony Lainson
2006-10-23 17:31 ` lucio
2006-10-25 18:04 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-10-25 18:12 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-10-25 18:18 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-10-25 18:23 ` erik quanstrom
2006-10-25 20:15 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-10-25 20:38 ` erik quanstrom
2006-10-25 20:57 ` Tim Wiess
2006-10-25 21:14 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-10-25 18:25 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-10-25 20:16 ` Paul Lalonde
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