From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60607280701t57d28051n6e720e49428673d2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:01:51 -0700 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] Investigating the Plan 9 Operating System - OSNews.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060728094804.GT1836@XTL.antioffline.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 91ed624e-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Heh, all I know is when I got my first Personal Computer (a TI-99/4a) I was only 6 or 7 years old, and thought it was something like our Atari 2600. See, I wasn't deprived of having computing power at home, but I can totally understand how people lusted after these things in the 70s and 80s. Ever seen how dedicated people get to their HP calculators? I guess my point is, even though I wasn't deprived of that stuff as a kid I really do sometimes stop and think that I'm pretty lucky to be able to have all this technology at my fingertips. I never would have thought in my younger days that I could even really afford the speed of ethernet I have at home, much less run a distributed OS like I can. The things I think are somewhat shameful is how people are tying to treat the internet like a big truck when we all know it's a series of tubes. Dave On 7/28/06, erik quanstrom wrote: > not to mention newspapers, magazines &c. there are advantages > to the net today that have nothing to do with the fact that they > are new. > > - erik > > On Fri Jul 28 04:48:45 CDT 2006, harriha@mail.student.oulu.fi wrote: > > 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. >