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by anthk 8mo ago
The transcript on Smalltalk is a bad point when the environment itself (the object browser) it what matters in the end. You already have a logical browser far superior to boldted pipes under XTerm. Even 9front has a ndb(1) tool (not just us
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by anthk 8mo ago
Good TUI's arent bad for POS terminals and the like, where speed it's king, kinda like airports where the latency it's a matter of life of death. For everything else, just look at IBM: you have the old TUI with 3270 terminals
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by anthk 8mo ago
>Android Drawterm, for sure. It should be under FDroid. On 9p itself, check termux. > When I use terminal emulators, SSH, and tmux, I can switch between different clients with different resolution, pixel density, and screen orientatio
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by anthk 8mo ago
The concept of an XTerm it's far inferior to Emacs either as a REPL with a shell (eshell), the scratch buffer of the whole Elisp environment. Ditto with 9front with remote mounts and device binding . When you can use a remote compon
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by anthk 8mo ago
9front went further; you don't need to care about TTY's and PTY's any more except for the 'vt' tool which was made OFC to connect to Unix terminals and to run some legacy software thru APE/NPE (minimal POSIX co
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by anthk 8mo ago
No Perl but there's rc, awk and aux/* helper tools which can do tons of stuff Perl does but without calling tons of CPAN modules. 9front ships an IRC client made with rc, awk and aux/trampoline to connect (and tlsclient for T
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by anthk 8mo ago
9front does that without emulating a terminal. Grep, cc, awk, walk (no find and magical incantations with -print0 there), functions instead of aliases on rc, better lists () in rc, and so on. And you can launch these command inside your g
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by anthk 8mo ago
With 9front you don't use SSH except against Unix. The motho there is too use 9p and import remote 'cpus', devices, auth against different servers... total orthogonality. You can spawn remote windows as if they were local. He
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by anthk 8mo ago
No, it's the opposite. in order to send commands to a hosts you shouldn't need a terminal emulator (twice or thrice, depending on the SSH, tmux and the VTY subsystem under Unix) and even sending baud information. 9front just gives
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by anthk 8mo ago
In 9front, a decades old fork of Plan9. It's basically more Unix than Unix itself, by expanding the 'everything it's a file motto' and now for real and leaving out useless VT220 emulators (and any TTY/serial emulati
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by anthk 8mo ago
Again, don't confuse the shell (command line interpreter) with a terminal with escape codes and the like. Check how 9font does it, you get the rc shell and a few more languages with a REPL (lua ports and the like) inside a graphical w
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by anthk 8mo ago
Harsh truth for Unix: - A shell is not a terminal. - Rc it's simpler than sh. - You can totally put shells under graphical windows as in 9front - You can do a better Unix than Unix itself while ditching out for good the VT220 interface
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by anthk 8mo ago
Unix is not about a terminal, that the obsolete medium, kinda like preaching about DOS PC with 386's... and CGA video cards. 9front copes with actual text throwing the terminal as a different tool to run legacy stuff in such as SSH
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by anthk 8mo ago
9front/plan9 leaves tmux and the like as toys. The moment you can use system tools, 9p and files on everything (even the text of the editor itself) you wont be back to these unusable teletype emulators, be XTerm clones or terminal mult
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by anthk 8mo ago
Unix downvoters should have a look on 9front (the most featureful/supported plan9 fork out there) in order to realize that you can follow the Unix philosophy (even more than OpenBSD itself) tossing the VT100 emulators to the legacy &#x
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by anthk 8mo ago
That's 9front/Plan9. No actual terminals, but windows with shells.
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by anthk 8mo ago
(eval) rather than (read), then. On concurrency, Go has the bolts screwed in; it basically was 'lets reuse everything we can from Plan9 into a multiplatform language'.
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by anthk 8mo ago
And bear in mind KDE3 was considered the bloated DE, as XFCE (even the GTK2 build) could snappily run with 64 MB of RAM and maybe less with a light GTK engine (yes, choosing the GTK2 engine mattered a lot back in the day). And, yes, choosi
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by anthk 8mo ago
So you are trying to explain concurrency to the folks who implemented CSP in both Plan9 and Go. Interesting. I should return "cspbook.pdf" back.
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by anthk 8mo ago
I used Kopete with inline videos and a newspaper-like theme. It was amazing and beautiful. That under 256MB of RAM. Nowadays you would need 2GB to do the same.
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by anthk 8mo ago
Same code in the background. Kopete for KDE could use Adium chat themes and emoticons.
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by anthk 8mo ago
From the same people, get Bitlbee with libpurple . IRC logging with your favourite client against everything supported by Bitlbee AND the Pidgin library. You can connect from any OS with an IRC client. It's astounding and liberating.
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by anthk 8mo ago
EE engineers design components and new materials for maybe computers (or not), CS engineers should be able to design CPU's.
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by anthk 8mo ago
In Europe in order to get a CS degree and be an actual "Engineer" you must be able to so at least on a basic level.
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by anthk 8mo ago
Today by comparison with that era (think 1996's Scud Race) arcades should have 4k raytraced driving games almost close to real life videos
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by anthk 8mo ago
With 9front you can import devices from other computers. Your body can do the same... with automatic reflexes and even stuff with automatic driving.
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by anthk 8mo ago
Gut feelings about bad things are older than dirt. Your brain already noticed something odd and dangerous about the environment, yet your eyes/ears didn't. Maybe some predator related smells, or the hormones from a potential aggre
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by anthk 8mo ago
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365412617_Polyatomi... Btw, from the threads's article, the personality change over transplant it's literally an episode from The Simpsons, but you, know, creators are
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by anthk 8mo ago
More related stuff. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365412617_Polyatomi...
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by anthk 8mo ago
Good luck in a near future. Science be damned modulo the users of reproducible software and distros.

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