Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:19:56 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, Michael Butler <imb@protected-networks.net>, current@freebsd.org, Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@gmail.com> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed Message-ID: <16157.1234905596@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:33:17 PST." <499B1F0D.4080209@elischer.org>
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In message <499B1F0D.4080209@elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes: >Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: >>> But nmdm(4) is not really meant to be used for stuff like that, not that >> >> why not? i think its exactly what it was meant for. > >I wrote nmdm to allow two vmware machines to talk to each other across >a serial link. And I added the speed emulation, because I was tasked to represent ed(1) in a "Editor Celebrity Death-Match" in the danish unix users group, and wanted to show my "slides" in ed(1) as well as prove that it was a usable editor across a 300 bps line. If I had bribed the convincingly female judges, as much as the rest of the "celebrities" who defended other editors, I might even have won :-) Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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