On Monday 03 May 2004 14:08, John Nichel wrote: >Graham Campbell wrote: ><snip> > >> And speaking of the hippie o/s, did you ever wonder how the >> internet ended up without a central controlling authority? Because >> it was designed by some almost hippie grad students back in the >> 60s/70s. > >Hmmmm....would the Atari 400 with BASIC cartridge that I learned to >program on be considered a 'hippie o/s'? ;) > Maybe in some circles. Me, I just figured it was another of mostek's drain bamaged things. Me, I got my first taste of a linux/unix like os in a much simpler way, one of my long lasting stepping stones to playing with the big dogs was os9 on the TRS-80 Color Computer. I still have half a dozen of those yet. It was quite a bit like the *nix's, but without the security unless you were logging in from a tty. The machines own keyboard always had "root" priviledges. Nitros9, a community developed version of os9 that runs on a hitachi 6309 cpu, is about 2x faster, and dead stable on a properly equipt CoCo3. The poorly written app may crash, but that os could survive a nuke attack I think. All my years of running am amiga that fit between the CoCo's and linux, were basicly spent trying to get a 14 day uptime. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
