From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <442ABA98.1010302@comtv.ru> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:49:28 +0400 From: Victor Nazarov User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] linux origins, why not? References: <20060328181558.77B4629574@mail.bitblocks.com> <2afc30c8b36e542ca0a16fc6f4e4c1a3@plan9.bell-labs.com> <283f5df10603281052n683bb0c6hac604bcb27c59261@mail.gmail.com> <44298B44.3010909@comtv.ru> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 24d154fe-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Burton Samograd wrote: >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? -- Victor Nazarov