From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <43CE5E2D.4080209@lanl.gov> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:26:37 -0700 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Brdline References: <20060117014256.9D9991140EA@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> <1bd979c8293b4bbbeae8a22108c1a590@terzarima.net> <775b8d190601170845u477ecaebj413ad9b379dad329@mail.gmail.com> <1aba9f7b0601172138v738e6810r8a0a672e35569381@mail.gmail.com> <5E58BDCB-0337-4EFE-8F88-9DAD558ADCFA@telus.net> <775b8d190601172211v2c1d7198pbe9037bcfbbc649@mail.gmail.com> <775b8d190601180625g5369a06dp328f7c7c16c21ba@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <775b8d190601180625g5369a06dp328f7c7c16c21ba@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: de0ab1a0-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 read "the art of networking style" for a great rant on standards. Note that film standards are ISO/DIN numbers -- not one number, two. That's how they resolved how to pick the #. 48 byte cells came from standards. ron