From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264125AbTDJToH (for ); Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:44:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264131AbTDJToH (for ); Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:44:07 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:59042 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264125AbTDJToG (for ); Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:44:06 -0400 Subject: Re: kernel support for non-english user messages From: Alan Cox To: root@chaos.analogic.com Cc: Frank Davis , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <3E93A958.80107@si.rr.com> <20030409080803.GC29167@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <20030409080803.GC29167@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <20030409190700.H19288@almesberger.net> <3E94A1B4.6020602@si.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1050001030.12494.1.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 10 Apr 2003 19:57:10 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 02:43, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > No. VAX/VMS is dead. It got killed by things like that. Canned > strings that required valuable resources. You don't need any > of that. You need to use the kernel logging facility for the > three or four messages that a properly running system will > issue in its lifetime (like the file-system getting full). VMS is alive and well, even though Compaq tried to kill it. There is a lot of anti-VMS stuff in the Unix world mostly coming from the _horrible_ command line and other bad early memories. There is also a hell of a lot of really cool stuff under that command line we could and should learn from. Alan