From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sethm@loomcom.com (Seth Morabito) Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 11:27:48 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] is learn(1) free now? In-Reply-To: <0401030453.AA09644@ivan.Harhan.ORG> References: <0401030453.AA09644@ivan.Harhan.ORG> Message-ID: 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