That's why we do what we do.... :-)
UNIX is user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are. Ian S. King, Sr. Vintage Systems Engineer Living Computer Museum A project of Vulcan, Inc. http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing- > edge.com] On Behalf Of Jason Stevens > Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 4:08 PM > To: dott.Piergiorgio > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Simh] SIMH on Windows CE > > Yeah, 'artifacts' like CP/M, Unix, VMS, MS-DOS, OS/2, MS Windows (all > flavors), QNX etc etc.. there are so many of them... Even 'free' > doesn't save them from the bin like NetBSD 0.8 is basically 'lost' > although you can kind of jam in the parts from 386BSD and what is left > in CVS... > > I guess that is the larger challenge, unless you run it you really > don't even know what is there, and to assume that things like CVS > histories are complete.... well let's just say you may be in for a > shock! > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:45 PM, dott.Piergiorgio > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Il 20/12/2010 22:26, Jason Stevens ha scritto: > > > > hmmmm...... > > > > Granted that my mindset is mainly humanist (Historian variety) I put > this > > somewhat rhetoric, somewhat socratic, note in a form of a question: > > > > what if someone get how to read the Linear A script and the > archaeological > > and historian communities ends totally disappointed because gives an > far > > inferior understanding of the Minoan civilization than the tablet > written in > > the best-known Linear B ? > > > > This seems to me the destiny, if not doom, of closed-source OS & > software: > > the dustbin of History. > > > > Best regards from Italy, > > dott. Piergiorgio. > > _______________________________________________ > > Simh mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
