[mdlug] Google Wave invites

[Aaron Kulkis]

rborromeo at the5spot.com wrote:
> I'll take one if you have one available. While everyone rips on the Wave 
> you don't know if it really sucks unless you really try it. I remember 
> when everyone said ICQ was a lame GUI IRC client.
> 

What I really miss is powwow.

Powwow was basically Unix/Linux talk (character by character,
rather than line-by-line, transmission) with split screen

my text
my text
my text
-------
your text
your text
your text

allowing simultaneous typing, but had the advantage that
unlike talk, it didn't require a talk deamon.

ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, etc are just glorified
versions of write(1) (which are "line at a time"
communications), only with network capability.

For those who want to see what I mean, login to root
on a virtual console (ctrl-alt-Fn  for n=1,2,3...6),
then from any terminal (either another virtual console,
or a GUI terminal).