From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 3 23:22:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80BAB15320 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 23:22:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA08867; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 15:51:32 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990804155132:24900=_"; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature" In-Reply-To: <19990804080952.B63150@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 15:51:32 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Subject: Re: BSD voice synthesis Cc: chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This message is in MIME format --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990804155132:24900=_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990804155132:24900=_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.3ia iQCVAwUBN6fb7FbYW/HEoF9pAQEEjgP5AX3CsKE6+Gc7jfuNzizgOTal4MtlzqpU NuB5S5U5P+kKEkHR08eGovqDqIx1AIT3ne/UWiCw5LuvlT5fn6tbhdH83ZGHkyp7 UvzMasUjISqIE79G5xIXHCJex5OhhPcFCER+udi+pjZ1KNsFhTcn3mi83khTGTYw 4BfsOTMInFI= =4o1Y -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990804155132:24900=_-- End of MIME message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message