From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44BF981E.4030608@lanl.gov> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:50:06 -0600 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8-1.1.fc4 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Investigating the Plan 9 Operating System - OSNews.com References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 85d89f82-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 erik quanstrom wrote: > powerful, distributed namespace? you mean like, uh, dns. > > dns can emulate everything that ndb provides except two-level > binding. this mess is kind of our fault though. If we'd get off our collective ass(es) and write stuff for osnews ... otherwise, the wikipedia effect applies. I've just (re)learned the hard way: successful research is about 99% PR, 1% real work. And, there are very, very successful and well-known researchers in this world who manage to make it 100% PR. ron p.s. curmudgeon A T lanl.gov gets to me to. You can guess why.