From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <988de8fc743f8699838c8b950aca71c3@ladd.quanstro.net> References: <988de8fc743f8699838c8b950aca71c3@ladd.quanstro.net> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:39:29 -0700 Message-ID: <3e1162e60910270839r7fe92b4fq50eff874b356655f@mail.gmail.com> From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd7623cdc07550476ec7b9b Subject: Re: [9fans] go to this site Topicbox-Message-UUID: 918b9b8c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd7623cdc07550476ec7b9b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:33 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > I mean, say your company has 25 satellite offices... why should they all > > have to do redundant work to update all the systems across the board. > Isn't > > the repetition going to cause a higher chance of someone missing > something? > > absent the plan 9 terminal model, who updates users' machines? > Right, that was the big illogical hole in the plan they had. I couldn't figure out why anyone who had everything the company needed for business production and work, would want to use a PC with local storage for a terminal system to a mainframe that basically couldn't do too much more. I guess PCs were a cheap way to go, or Dell (or whomever it was) gave them a great deal or something to make it seem it was worth their while. Even all the email was on the mainframe, but it wasn't called email, it was something else. I suppose a few people may have needed word processing or spreadsheets or whatever, but that was only because there was no way developed to do word processing or spreadsheets on the mainframe. Old stuff becoming new again shouldn't be surprising to anyone at this point though I guess. Dave > > - erik > > --000e0cd7623cdc07550476ec7b9b Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:33 AM, erik qu= anstrom <quan= stro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> I mean, say your company has 25 satellite offices...= why should they all
> have to do redundant work to update all the systems across the board. = =A0Isn't
> the repetition going to cause a higher chance of someone missing somet= hing?

absent the plan 9 terminal model, who updates users' machines?

Right, that was the big illogical hole in= the plan they had. =A0I couldn't figure out why anyone who had everyth= ing the company needed for business production and work, would want to use = a PC with local storage for a terminal system to a mainframe that basically= couldn't do too much more.

I guess PCs were a cheap way to go, or Dell (or whomeve= r it was) gave them a great deal or something to make it seem it was worth = their while.

Even all the email was on the mainfra= me, but it wasn't called email, it was something else. =A0

I suppose a few people may have needed word processing = or spreadsheets or whatever, but that was only because there was no way dev= eloped to do word processing or spreadsheets on the mainframe.

Old stuff becoming new again shouldn't be surprising to = anyone at this point though I guess.

Dave
=A0

- erik


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