*nix on "classic" systems

Rumor has it that jvdg at sparcpark.net may have mentioned these words: No. Ontopically, on my Tandy Color Computer 3, there's an operating system called OS-9 (and a still updated open-source version, NitrOS-9) which has access to multiple text windows (and multiple pages of these, which you can select with the 'Clear' key) but does not have any graphical anything built into the OS. Offtopically, on Linux, if you build the right libraries (JPEG/GIF/PNG, etc.), you can build a graphical browser called links that when called with the -g option, will give you a full graphical user interface (mouse pointer, displays pictures, etc...) but is not windowed. No tabbed browsing, no popups - it basically takes over the framebuffer & shows graphics, but it doesn't rely on X and you can't even run more than one instance of it (at least on my machine, it b0rks if you try to alt-Fx into a different text window and you have to kill -9 the process) You can quite easily have one or the other without lumping them together. Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger | "Profile, don't speculate." SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers | Daniel J. Bernstein zmerch at 30below.com |