From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:04:44 -0600 From: "Burton Samograd" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] linux origins, why not? In-Reply-To: <442ABA98.1010302@comtv.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060328181558.77B4629574@mail.bitblocks.com> <2afc30c8b36e542ca0a16fc6f4e4c1a3@plan9.bell-labs.com> <283f5df10603281052n683bb0c6hac604bcb27c59261@mail.gmail.com> <44298B44.3010909@comtv.ru> <442ABA98.1010302@comtv.ru> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 24d4fe88-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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? 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.=20 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. 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 ;-) -- burton samograd kruhft@gmail= .com kruhft.blogspot.com www.myspace.com/kruhft metashell.blogspot.com