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Date:      Wed, 04 Aug 1999 15:51:32 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD voice synthesis
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990804155132.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <19990804080952.B63150@daemon.ninth-circle.org>

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On 04-Aug-99 Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> > type foobar.txt >speak:someoptionsgohere
>  Ah the cool Amiga...
>  I wonder what the shell of the Amiga was btw?

Well you could have several types.. The normal one sucked (sort of like csh
really) you could get a shell called zsh for it IIRC.

>  And then the devices were also cool...

Yes.. I really liked the message based IO stuff.. Makes extensable FS features
easy. (eg the notify packet type for monitoring directory/file changes instead
of polling)

Of course given than message passing was passing a real pointer around a shared
address space meant you where in deep smeg when your program went nuts :)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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