From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <442AD8C0.1020208@comtv.ru> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:58:08 +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: <694c62606510c6e7eb0583b36f62bb43@9netics.com> In-Reply-To: <694c62606510c6e7eb0583b36f62bb43@9netics.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 24e1ab74-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 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