Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:21:44 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> To: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> Subject: Re: Variant Link (Was: Re: Thoughts on Multi-Symlink Concept) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1402261618200.1386@sea.ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <530E4FCC.4090401@digiware.nl> References: <CAO2cuEMC==HstC4VkkiFpHyo6LA_xyCjYKvCEECXneVLNnZpZg@mail.gmail.com> <A31B3F88-861F-459B-AD67-F146D5514594@mail.turbofuzz.com> <530049a1.XXZ1PjZFgRyCu9X6%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <53092D83.6050603@digiware.nl> <43505B61-FAE8-4A61-922E-78F6007BBFC3@gmail.com> <530BE132.1030507@m5p.com> <Pine.GSO.4.64.1402241949490.20956@sea.ntplx.net> <530E4FCC.4090401@digiware.nl>
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On Wed, 26 Feb 2014, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > 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 <wjw@digiware.nl> >>>>> 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.... tank (or perhaps it is xtank now?) was awesome on the DN10000. My memory is foggy - I forget some of the other games. > 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.... Cool. If we were able to commit this, we wouldn't have to have Domain/OS conversations every 7 years :( -- DE
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