From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 15 10:35:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B8511515F for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 10:35:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id KAA25173; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 10:35:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id KAA14226; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 10:23:29 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn4.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA28547; Wed, 15 Sep 99 10:35:08 PDT Message-Id: <37DFD8CC.DB009150@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:35:08 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Parag Patel Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Command-line editing [was NetWare client in -current] References: <9219.937364032@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Parag Patel wrote: > > I said: > > >Anyway, command-line apps have been obsolete for years, so I guess we > >should go on and find better things to argue about. :) > > I guess people missed the ":)" so I'd better explain. > > Most computers are embedded and becoming both more ubiquitous and > invisble. Most of these don't even *have* interfaces, GUI or CLI. Yes, they do, the UI just runs on another computer. Or, more properly, the embedded device has a PUI -- protocol user interface. I like the TLA. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message