From: sethm@loomcom.com (Seth Morabito)
Subject: [TUHS] is learn(1) free now?
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 11:27:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EA5A7A46-3E22-11D8-8B7C-000393CC2C24@loomcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0401030453.AA09644@ivan.Harhan.ORG>
On Jan 2, 2004, at 8:53 PM, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> Here is the acid test: time-teleport a V7 user from 1979 to a VAX
> running
> 4.3BSD, set PATH=/bin:/usr/bin (no /usr/ucb), do stty old (old tty
> driver) and
> stty ek (erase # kill @) and see if he feels at home or not.
I suspect they would be horrified that more progress hadn't been made
in computing environments in the last 25 years :)
In 1979, I was pretty excited when I thought about what computers could
be like in the early 2000s. We all love to preserve history, but
there's something to be said for moving on and creating something new
as well.
-Seth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-03 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-03 4:53 Michael Sokolov
2004-01-03 19:27 ` Seth Morabito [this message]
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2004-01-12 10:18 José R. Valverde
2004-01-03 3:37 Norman Wilson
2004-01-02 20:40 Michael Sokolov
2004-01-02 18:16 Michael Sokolov
2004-01-02 19:47 ` Kenneth Stailey
2004-01-02 14:17 Kenneth Stailey
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