Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 15:51:32 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD voice synthesis Message-ID: <XFMail.990804155132.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19990804080952.B63150@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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This message is in MIME format --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990804155132:24900=_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 04-Aug-99 Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > type foobar.txt >speak:someoptionsgohere > Ah the cool Amiga... > I wonder what the shell of the Amiga was btw? Well you could have several types.. The normal one sucked (sort of like csh really) you could get a shell called zsh for it IIRC. > And then the devices were also cool... Yes.. I really liked the message based IO stuff.. Makes extensable FS features easy. (eg the notify packet type for monitoring directory/file changes instead of polling) Of course given than message passing was passing a real pointer around a shared address space meant you where in deep smeg when your program went nuts :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990804155132:24900=_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.3ia iQCVAwUBN6fb7FbYW/HEoF9pAQEEjgP5AX3CsKE6+Gc7jfuNzizgOTal4MtlzqpU NuB5S5U5P+kKEkHR08eGovqDqIx1AIT3ne/UWiCw5LuvlT5fn6tbhdH83ZGHkyp7 UvzMasUjISqIE79G5xIXHCJex5OhhPcFCER+udi+pjZ1KNsFhTcn3mi83khTGTYw 4BfsOTMInFI= =4o1Y -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990804155132:24900=_-- End of MIME message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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