From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44243665.8070306@village.com> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:11:49 -0500 From: Wes Kussmaul User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] ports from GPL References: <441AD830.1030507@lanl.gov> <1143178184.3558.2.camel@heater.intranet.ebr> <442428D9.9000808@lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <442428D9.9000808@lanl.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1f4367ca-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Ronald G Minnich wrote: > ems wrote: > >> I prefer "everything is accessed like a file" > > > I'm still not comfortable with that phrasing. It's amazing how it gets=20 > misinterpreted by Unix and Windows folks ... Call it a new and different operating system and leave it at that. I have learned that you do the new-new thing a disservice if you yield=20 to the common desire to force it into a readily comprehended semantic=20 box. Make 'em choose between ignoring it or doing a little mental work.=20 (Disregard this advice if you're trying to sell something.) --=20 Wes Kussmaul CIO The Village Group 738 Main Street Waltham, MA 02451 781-647-7178 My uncle likes to say that the world=92s biggest troubles started when th= e serpent said, =93Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people co= llectively calling themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it=92s the = same as if a person named Arthur Andersen signed it.=94 I don=92t get the= serpent and fruit part. Must be some Swiss mythology thing. He can be a = bit obscure.=20 P.K. Iggy _How I Like Fixed The Internet_ (Tales from the Great Infodepression of 2009 and the prosperity that followed)