From: Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo@alchemistowl.org>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Research UNIX on the AT&T 3B2?
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:03:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DCC931CD-2BCB-41DC-858D-45508E51A245@alchemistowl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1808291050580.41601@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On 29 Aug 2018, at 03:06, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> Stuff I write on FreeBSD pretty much works on my Mac (the latter has mo serial ports, and thus uses a dodgy USB/serial cable with an equally-dodgy driver that hangs the system to the point of requiring a *power cycle*).
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has infinite problems with these dongles. I have a sacred old laptop running OpenBSD precisely to get serial consoles working as a) it has an RS-232 port and b) the drivers are sane. I have a USB-serial dongle which on Mac, once the driver is installed, creates a device called /dev/cu.Bluetooth-Serial-SiLo. Took me an eternity to figure out it was that because the docs had nothing about which device file it actually created and, well, considering it is a physical cable I had eliminated Bluetooth to begin with… I confess to looking at the creation date on the device file and then saying “naah, it cannot be… oh… it is…”
I do miss SunOS too - because of a single user with great powers we had to upgrade a SparcStation 10 to Solaris back in 1994 and the performance took an instant nosedive. Not to mention the hours spent getting tools to make it actually work (i.e. 99% of the GNU project).
Arrigo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-29 7:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-24 15:13 Seth Morabito
2018-08-24 15:23 ` William Cheswick
2018-08-24 16:06 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-24 16:46 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-24 17:54 ` Jon Forrest
2018-08-26 2:22 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-27 15:54 ` Mary Ann Horton
2018-08-27 17:06 ` Seth Morabito
2018-08-27 17:33 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-27 19:59 ` John P. Linderman
2018-08-27 20:27 ` Brad Spencer
2018-08-28 0:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-28 0:30 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-28 6:01 ` arnold
2018-08-28 6:11 ` George Michaelson
2018-08-28 6:42 ` arnold
2018-08-28 13:13 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-08-28 22:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29 5:25 ` arnold
2018-08-28 22:33 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29 0:36 ` Harald Arnesen
2018-08-29 0:46 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-29 5:29 ` [TUHS] SunOS code? arnold
2018-08-29 14:40 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-29 14:41 ` Dan Cross
2018-08-29 14:44 ` William Pechter
2018-08-29 14:46 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-29 14:45 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-29 14:43 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-29 14:45 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-29 14:53 ` Larry McVoy
2018-09-01 11:43 ` Steve Mynott
2018-09-01 13:50 ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-01 14:32 ` Warner Losh
2018-09-04 9:39 ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-01 15:01 ` Larry McVoy
2018-09-01 15:20 ` Warner Losh
2018-09-01 18:24 ` Steve Mynott
2018-09-01 18:38 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-29 23:09 ` David Arnold
2018-08-29 1:06 ` [TUHS] Research UNIX on the AT&T 3B2? Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29 3:23 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-08-29 4:36 ` [TUHS] Cryptic Unix Commands Warren Toomey
2018-08-29 16:13 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-08-29 22:03 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29 22:09 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-08-29 22:21 ` William Pechter
2018-08-29 23:04 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-08-29 23:38 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-30 3:59 ` William Pechter
2018-08-29 22:31 ` Dan Mick
2018-08-29 23:00 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-08-30 8:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-30 11:06 ` ron
2018-08-30 11:35 ` John P. Linderman
2018-08-30 13:24 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-30 14:31 ` William Pechter
2018-08-30 15:01 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-30 15:22 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-30 16:11 ` William Pechter
2018-08-29 5:06 ` [TUHS] Research UNIX on the AT&T 3B2? Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-08-29 14:25 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-08-29 14:41 ` Dan Cross
2018-08-29 14:50 ` Chet Ramey
2018-08-29 14:59 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-29 15:08 ` Chet Ramey
2018-08-29 17:14 ` Arno Griffioen
2018-08-29 23:23 ` Eric Wayte
2018-08-30 3:03 ` Gregg Levine
2018-08-29 17:28 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-08-30 5:58 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-08-30 13:14 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-29 8:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29 7:03 ` Arrigo Triulzi [this message]
2018-08-28 1:14 ` Warren Toomey
2018-08-28 17:47 ` Paul Winalski
2018-08-26 8:48 ` arnold
2018-08-26 13:09 Norman Wilson
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