From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Cág <ca6c@bitmessage.ch>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] cat -v and other complaints
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 14:32:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7aa1b69655bc35bb@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180903185616.ZnkRk%ca6c@bitmessage.ch>
> > "Unavailable on the console" is kind of a cheap shot when talking about
> > an operating system that deliberately doesn't support consoles. Part of
> > the point was outgrowing TTYs.
>
> Yeah, I guess I should've started with that :) I love Unix for the
> console.
But in Plan9, the console is assumed to be a bitmap device. Perhaps
with the exception of, say, the file server. But there is no reason
why that has to be the case - certainly not on modern "file server"
hardware. It's just an artifact of how cpurc is set up. It's
trivially changable, should you desire to.
--lyndon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-30 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-29 14:25 Clem Cole
2018-08-29 22:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29 23:36 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-30 1:14 ` Clem cole
2018-08-30 1:15 ` Clem cole
2018-08-30 2:43 ` Kevin Bowling
2018-08-30 2:59 ` George Michaelson
2018-08-31 0:27 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-31 0:41 ` Dan Cross
2018-08-31 1:58 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-31 11:38 ` ron
2018-08-31 14:41 ` [TUHS] UNIX System names - since UNIX was a Trademark Clem Cole
2018-08-31 15:13 ` Eric Wayte
2018-08-31 15:17 ` William Pechter
2018-08-31 15:25 ` Clem Cole
2018-09-01 0:10 ` John P. Linderman
2018-09-01 0:18 ` ron
2018-09-01 0:55 ` Nemo
2018-09-01 7:37 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-09-01 13:54 ` Nemo
2018-09-01 17:03 ` Paul Winalski
2018-09-03 1:14 ` Robert Brockway
2018-09-30 20:57 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-10-01 16:26 ` Paul Winalski
2018-09-01 0:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-31 21:56 ` [TUHS] cat -v and other complaints Cág
2018-09-01 3:37 ` Andrew Warkentin
2018-09-03 18:04 ` Cág
2018-09-03 18:11 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-09-03 18:56 ` Cág
2018-09-04 6:10 ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-04 6:41 ` ron minnich
2018-09-04 9:34 ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-04 10:23 ` Dan Cross
2018-09-04 14:22 ` ron minnich
2018-09-06 20:02 ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-06 20:49 ` ron minnich
2018-09-06 21:55 ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-07 1:59 ` Dan Cross
2018-09-07 4:40 ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-30 21:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2018-09-03 20:08 ` Bakul Shah
2018-09-03 20:41 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-09-03 21:46 ` Bakul Shah
2018-09-04 0:52 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-09-06 20:29 Norman Wilson
2018-09-06 22:16 ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-08 12:02 [TUHS] [TUHS} " Doug McIlroy
2018-09-08 13:36 ` Will Senn
2018-09-08 14:22 ` [TUHS] " Ralph Corderoy
2018-09-08 16:10 ` Arthur Krewat
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