From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 5 13:15: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1BE937B422 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 13:14:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA39604; Sat, 5 May 2001 22:13:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Message-ID: <3AF45F02.8B655D19@eboa.com> Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 22:13:54 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eBOA - Programming the Web X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: Bill Hickum , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do yo do that cool pipe | trick References: <20010505133534.30774.qmail@web10907.mail.yahoo.com> <003a01c0d56a$fbd342f0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > ... > > What's a terminal? > > A fancy historical name for a keyboard/display combo. Nah, that would be glass TTY. When I first managed to lay my fingers on a computer it wasn't actually a computer I layed my hands on. 't was but a terminal. In the historical sense. Just an end-point. In this case a card reader and a line printer attached to some DEC PDP-11 mini which was via modem connected to a CDC 6600 AKA Cyber. It is true. I wrote my first OO program on hollerith cards back in '78. When I still had hair ;). Roelof -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- eBOAź est. 1982 tel. +31-58-2123014 web. http://eBOA.com/ fax. +31-58-2160293 mail info@eBOA.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message