From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:48:04 +0300 From: Harri Haataja Subject: Re: [9fans] Investigating the Plan 9 Operating System - OSNews.com In-reply-to: <6585c39236c2e3f2ad32986b228e84f1@quanstro.net> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <20060728094804.GT1836@XTL.antioffline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline References: <44C9049D.2060603@village.com> <6585c39236c2e3f2ad32986b228e84f1@quanstro.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 91b421a0-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:29:04PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > i don't think the evolution of the net (or computers for that matter) > is a story of the good old days and constant regression or the > converse. i think it's a story of (slightly? how pessamistic are > you?) more advances than regressions. Depends also on how much you value the new things, I guess. It was probably the masses that drew all kinds of companies along and now you can contact many places, research products, get manuals and support etc. Well.. sometimes you might. -- "Cheer up, things could be worse." So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- from .sig of Gene Cash