Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 08:02:45 -0600 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: What's SAM? (Re: text, menu/dialog/windowing, library, ideas?) Message-ID: <199612041402.IAA07328@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199612041147.AA141990066@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> References: <199612040936.UAA16234@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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SAM is the function-key-driven system administration tool that HP's been developing since its first incarnation on the HP 150 touch screen and the HP integral lunchbox UNIX system back in 1984. (the integral was cute: ROM based root file system that was copied into RAM on boot up, automatically mounted floppies when they were inserted and mechanically locked the eject button until they were unmountable, and no hard disk because there weren't any hard disks that satisfied HP's "your calculator will still work after going through a snowblower" construction standards) It's not bad, and with a sufficiently high level abstraction an X-based version would be able to be made much nicer looking than any widget oriented equivalent.
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