Per Jessen said the following on 02/28/2013 03:15 PM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Per Jessen said the following on 02/28/2013 01:04 PM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
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That sounds pretty limited and crippled compare to what's available for Linux.
It isn't. The description above is very poor and/or biased.
Perhaps you'd care to amplify that -- or even correct the Wikipedia article.
I would if I could. It's difficult - partially because I am biased, mostly because one has to experience both to really understand. And that goes for either side. There is a lot of "religion" in it.
"Religion" I can understand.
There is also the little matter of two completely different environments - a IBM 3270 terminal vs the DEC VT100 (essentially). The former is screen based, the latter is line based.
Eh? The KSR-33 was line based but not the VY-100. As far back as 1982 I was using VI on VT100 and clones (made by Wyse or someone) in full screen mode. That's what TERMCAP was for. Thank you Bill Joy.
One funny thing is - the standard IBM line length is 80 chars, which goes all the way back to punchcards. I have not worked with punchcards myself, but IBM JCL is nothing but "screen" punchcards. However, think about how often we limit ourselves to 80 chars - in email, in code, everywhere. If it wasn't for punchcards, we wouldn't have a continuation character.
Yes, but there's a lot about UNIX and the 'Net which doesn't acknowledge line length. Again, as far bask as the 1980s protocols such as NEWS/NNTP the concatenation of the sites the message had passed though produced lines that were of indefinite length, and the code just dealt with that dynamically. That Henry Spenser addressed the input buffer-overflow issue back in the early 1980s, long before the Morris Worm, just shows how lacking our education system is. -- “When dealing with people, remember that you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotions.” —Dale Carnegie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org