Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
> I think what most people lament is that 20 years later, Unix still doesn't
> have the user friendliness of TOPS-20 nor are we likely to see anything like
> it any time soon.
>
> -spc (Yea yea yea it could be done, but doing it right (or even reliably)
> under Unix is a real pain ... )
Well, nobody's stopping anybody from doing a TOPS-20 lookalike for
current hardware. Linus Torvalds did his. (And as the old quote
goes, Unix is just as user-friendly as any other operating system,
it just isn't so promiscuous about who it's friendly with). You
could do a TOPS-20 "shell" over Linux or you can do your own kernel.
You decide. Never used TOPS-20 myself, though I'd like to try it
sometime, Eric Raymond speaks highly of it even though nowadays he
mostly hacks Linux and has even convinced my wife into installing
Red Hat onto an otherwise unused Pentium-90 box so she'll learn
skills not included in her nursing education.
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram_at_cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any
firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright
Received on Mon Oct 19 1998 - 11:34:06 BST