From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 26 20:34:24 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DD9B9D64; Wed, 26 Feb 2014 20:34:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.digiware.nl (unknown [IPv6:2001:4cb8:90:ffff::3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 92E6318ED; Wed, 26 Feb 2014 20:34:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rack1.digiware.nl (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFADF1534ED; Wed, 26 Feb 2014 21:34:22 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at digiware.nl Received: from smtp.digiware.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by rack1.digiware.nl (rack1.digiware.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id AMEgpowWcmea; Wed, 26 Feb 2014 21:34:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.10.9] (vaio [192.168.10.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 52F60153448; Wed, 26 Feb 2014 21:34:20 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <530E4FCC.4090401@digiware.nl> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 21:34:20 +0100 From: Willem Jan Withagen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Eischen , George Mitchell Subject: Re: Variant Link (Was: Re: Thoughts on Multi-Symlink Concept) References: <530049a1.XXZ1PjZFgRyCu9X6%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <53092D83.6050603@digiware.nl> <43505B61-FAE8-4A61-922E-78F6007BBFC3@gmail.com> <530BE132.1030507@m5p.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 20:34:24 -0000 On 25-2-2014 2:20, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, George Mitchell wrote: >> On 02/22/14 21:45, Jordan Hubbard wrote: >>> On Feb 22, 2014, at 3:06 PM, Willem Jan Withagen >>>> Apollo Domain systems had those, and they were great. >>>> Set SYSTYPE to BSD4 and get the BSD tree and all that came with it, or >>>> SYSV to get the other stuff. >>> [...] >> >> Since we're going down DomainOS Memory Lane, does anyone else miss >> transcript pads? -- George > > I missed the transcript pad too. > > I also missed the DM editor and the ability to write DM scripts. > > And I miss the edit pad - the first time I was able to do > a rectangular cut/paste/move. And I loved the ability to place > the cursor beyond the current end of a line and start typing > (without clicking the mouse!). I hate having to hold down > the space bar, adding blanks, to get out to the column I want > (suppose your coding conventions disallow tabs). If I remember correctly it was possible to run X on the box, in a sort of transparent thru mode. And that was version 10.?? But first time I saw it, I wondered why anybody would want to run that on DomainOS? It was progress the wrong way around.... And from the DM editor, I went into vi, because Emacs just does not fit in the frame of my brain.... :( BTW Got an svn URL from Brooks@, so I'll atleast download the VariantLink code.... --WjW