Frobnitz Coil Oil3d ago
I run NetBSD on hardware that won't run much of anything else, these days, or for which I lack a means of conjuring the necessary PAKs, and I run OpenBSD on anything exposed to the net, or to public WiFi networks. Not sure why I don't run FreeBSD on anything. ZFS would be nice. I suppose one or more of the particularly self-destructive aspects of my mind worries that FreeBSD experience might somehow eventually lead to gainful employment, and we can't have that.
Show threadJdeBP3d ago

@frobozz

#ZFS is nice. I've had it, with full root-on-ZFS, since PC-BSD. It took me several years to actually realize how nice it was.

If you want something more arcane than #FreeBSD to play with, take a look at #Illumos, in particular its derivatives #OpenSolaris, #OmniOS, #SmartOS, and @ptribble 's #Tribblix.

Illumos has original Joy+Horton #vi (not one of the clones), the SMF, zones, ZFS, and a fair number of System 5isms not in the BSD world (e.g. sar, which @rl_dane was talking about the other day).

Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 3d ago

@JdeBP @frobozz @ptribble

Duuude, are you going to make me install Illumos so I can try out "true" vi? 😆

@gumnos, you seein' this? Folks keep pulling me deeper into the neckbeard side of the world. XD

Show threadJdeBP3d ago

@rl_dane

You need a paper terminal for the complete experience, remember. (-:

https://code.illumos.org/plugins/gitiles/illumos-gate/+/refs/heads/master/usr/src/cmd/vi/port/ex_vis.h#42

@frobozz @gumnos

#vi #Illumos #open #Tribblix

usr/src/cmd/vi/port/ex_vis.h - illumos-gate - Gitiles

Show threadFrobnitz Coil Oil2d ago
@JdeBP @rl_dane @gumnos I think I missed the window to get an affordable dead tree tty. I'll have to make-do with my green Wyse WY-60 with a serial Okidata Microline 320.
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 1d ago

@frobozz @JdeBP @gumnos

Oh man, I'm jelly! I missed my window to pick up as many WYSE terminals I could stuff in my car 25 years ago. XD

Show threadpassthejoe1d ago
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Back in the college computer labs, Wyse was the best, followed by DEC, with adm3a at the bottom. Looks-wise, the order is reversed.
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 1d ago

@passthejoe @frobozz @JdeBP @gumnos

I dunno, I have a vague impression of the #WYSE terminals being "weird," but it's been a quarter century.

Some of the later DEC VTs were dinky, but that #VT100 was LEGEND-STATUS classic. 😄

I literally remember seeing them in pictures and wondering "What is that groovy curved-looking computer??" and only years later learning that that was the ORIGINAL VT100.

I'd lose my mind to be able to play with one of those sweet machines.

Show threadpassthejoe
I always had in the back of my mind that if I came across a terminal, I'd wire up a computer (Raspberry Pi, Open SIMH) with a serial port to use it. ... The terminal hasn't fallen into my lap, so it remains a what-if

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