Re: what do ada -erz think of plan9 from bell labs?

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Martin <martin@thedowies.com> writes:

> On Thursday, November 28, 2013 7:12:13 AM UTC, johannes falcone wrote:
>> On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 7:10:42 AM UTC-8, johannes falcone wrote:
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>> has anyone attempted a bsd ro linux ish posix ish os or even
>> something new in pure ada?
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> I think the old Rational R1000s were written in Ada...they were
> amazing terminals with a command line OS with an Ada-like shell!
> Wonder if there are any still in use?!...

ISTR they were Emacs-based; presumably this was Emacs with the core
re-written in Ada ...

The Emacs geekiness was to some extent hidden on the Facit terminals by
having multiple rows of function keys and an amazing overlay, so you
didn't have to know that M-C-S-cokebottle was bound to
'compile-current-buffer' (actually, I think that would have been
'semanticize-current-buffer', woo for jargon).

Most of my R1000 programming was done on a Sun 3-50 using a 150-mile
network connection to the actual computer; I can't remember how the
editing interface worked but it clearly wasn't a Facit terminal!