From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 26 21:21:55 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 709E8E49 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2014 21:21:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.netplex.net (mail.netplex.net [204.213.176.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 113631D48 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2014 21:21:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sea.ntplx.net (sea.ntplx.net [204.213.176.11]) by mail.netplex.net (8.14.8/8.14.8/NETPLEX) with ESMTP id s1QLLixP020497; Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:21:44 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS and Clam AntiVirus (mail.netplex.net) X-Greylist: Message whitelisted by DRAC access database, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (mail.netplex.net [204.213.176.9]); Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:21:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:21:44 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen X-X-Sender: eischen@sea.ntplx.net To: Willem Jan Withagen Subject: Re: Variant Link (Was: Re: Thoughts on Multi-Symlink Concept) In-Reply-To: <530E4FCC.4090401@digiware.nl> Message-ID: References: <530049a1.XXZ1PjZFgRyCu9X6%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <53092D83.6050603@digiware.nl> <43505B61-FAE8-4A61-922E-78F6007BBFC3@gmail.com> <530BE132.1030507@m5p.com> <530E4FCC.4090401@digiware.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, George Mitchell X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Eischen 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 21:21:55 -0000 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 >>>>> 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