11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
7:17 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Rich Alderson<RichA at vulcan.com> wrote:
No sweat... well actually I just got back from the gym so there's a
lot of sweat, but you get the drift. I'm so used to the Internet that
the idea of someone apologizing blows me away :) I in turn am sorry
for making the kinda jerkish reply--I hadn't seen the thread about the
Toad-1, so I didn't get the connection.
It's pretty cool to hear that TOPS-20 is still out there. Is it the
kind of thing where you can just hit the OS through a serial port, or
is it all tucked away carefully behind a lot of special user
interface? I like the OS, but Plan 9 keeps me busy... too bad that
either way I couldn't afford one of those boxes.
John
--
"I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS
reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C,
Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba
From: John
Floren
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 6:26 PM
Forgive us all for not knowing the deep dark
super secret secrets of
the super secret TOPS-20 society. If only I had known the unpublished
unspoken truth I could have avoided asking for clarification, such an
ass I am.
John, I apologize. ?I was a horse's arse in my previous response.
Since there was a discussion of the XKL Toad-1 in the last few weeks, and
I posted explicitly as a former XKL employee, I took it on faith that if
I stated something about the internals of a piece of hardware developed by
that company, I'd be given the benefit of the doubt.
I wasn't, and it irritated me out of all proportion.
Again, my apologies.
Rich Alderson
ex-Customer Advocacy, XKL LLC