11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
8:07 p.m.
From: John Floren
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:17 PM
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.
I haven't seen the new gear in person yet, but I would expect the latter.
Part of my job for a year or so before XKL and I parted ways was defining
the user interface, and it was clear that, for good or ill, customers of
networking gear expect a command set similar if not identical to Cisco's
IOS.
I pushed for an entryway into the OS, but didn't have time to argue for it
strongly.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
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Seattle, WA 98104
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