Variant Link (Was: Re: Thoughts on Multi-Symlink Concept)

[Daniel Eischen]

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 at 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 :(

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DE