12 Jun
2009
12 Jun
'09
8:20 p.m.
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John Floren wrote:
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
twenex.org has TOPS-20 shells, I think I still have my account.
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unpublished unspoken truth I could have avoided asking for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
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