On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 9:02 AM Philip Hands phil@hands.com wrote:
David Niklas doark@mail.com writes:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/command-not-found
Dear luke, You didn't need email, you can use wall(1).
That dredges up memories of supporting users (via 1200 baud modem, thus occupying the only land line) by communicating via write(1) in each direction, which then lead to the memory of the joy of discovering talk(1) as a better alternative.
ha, i remember that. and trying to write a better alternative (multi-user, tokenring style) as a way to learn c, except i didn't use select and on trying to kill it, it left a zombie process running at 100% CPU on the SunOS 4.1.3 minicomputer. as it was during the inter-term break, i went to see one of the sysadmins in the Imperial College Dept of Computing to sort it out. he was later severely told off for rebooting the machine.
Thanks for the moment of Proustian nostalgia. :-)
:)
l.