[tde-users] Re: RHow dead is Trinity and is it worth contributing to?

said Mike Bird via tde-users: | On Tue July 2 2024 13:16:14 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote: | > Ah, Lisp machines, never had my hand on those ... I'm still | > programming in scheme and lisp. Somehow it's a pitty that TQt does not | > have a lisp FFI. | | The windowing system was not dissimilar to TDE or any other modern | windowing system except there's little awareness of any filesystem. | You're basically editing and compiling in Emacs all the time. | Everything you do becomes live instantly. (Reproducible builds were not | a thing!) Normally when you turned the machine off it was just | suspending and you would later resume in the same virtual image. You | only actually booted from a clean image maybe once a year. One of the most startling (and after one got used to it, delightful) things about Linux in the early days, when the NextSTEP clone was a leading desktop, was that literally everything was configured via text file, plain text, human readable and human understandable. The tradition continued for awhile -- for instance, the KMail address list in the early days was a simple text file: "name" email address. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/