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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!dxcern!vxcrna.cern.ch!roeber
- From: roeber@vxcrna.cern.ch
- Subject: re: Favourite DOMAIN/OS features (or mis-features)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.110318.1@vxcrna.cern.ch>
- Sender: news@dxcern.cern.ch (USENET News System)
- Organization: CERN -- European Organization for Nuclear Research
- References: <199207212228.AA01227@pan.ssec.honeywell.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 10:03:18 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <199207212228.AA01227@pan.ssec.honeywell.com>, thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM ((jt) John Thompson) writes:
- > [...]
- > o The keyboard. Biilllioonnns and biillionnns (sorry C. Sagan) of keys all
- > waiting to be redefined. I _hate_ having to point and click and pulldown
- > and popup everything.
-
- Ah, yes. Especially for touch-typists like myself. If I'm dragged (kicking and
- screaming) to our new snakes, I'm going to hack (binary-only kernel hack, if I
- have to) and wire so I can use the Domain keyboard.
-
- > o The USER-extensible, typed, file system! [...]
- > (Thanks, guys -- I love the COMPRESS file type.)
-
- Is it just me, or does anybody else have the hunch that the compress file type
- was written by a remaining Apollo guy, who had read the perennial "on-the-fly
- compression?/It can't be done" dialogs on comp.unix.wizards, and wanted to
- prove it *could* be done before the possibility slipped away?
-
- The other day, somebody was wanting to boot normal BSD on a 3500.
- I'd like to do the reverse: boot Domain on our snakes, suns, 386s, etc.
- Anybody else interested?
-
- --
- Frederick G. M. Roeber | CERN -- European Center for Nuclear Research
- e-mail: roeber@cern.ch or roeber@caltech.edu | work: +41 22 767 31 80
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