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From: Taj Khattra <taj.khattra@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 802.11g cards
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:14:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57a21f730501261514409d6256@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050126014444.4109.qmail@g.galapagos.bx.psu.edu>

> |   mind you, it's from the company that banned Erlang!)
> 
> Really?  Is there a story behind that?

it was an "irrational" move.  :)

it's mentioned briefly in bjarne däcker's thesis [1, chapter 7] and
joe armstrong's thesis [2, chapter 1] (both are well worth a read,
imho).  the ban actually applied just to ericsson's radio group, not
all of ericsson.

it's interesting that the ban occurred (perhaps just by coincidence,
maybe it was a different group) around the same time as the first
version of the mostly erlang based AXD301 switch was delivered.  the
AXD301 project is considered a major success [3].

[1] http://www.erlang.se/publications/bjarnelic.ps
[2] http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
[3] http://www.erlang.se/publications/Ulf_Wiger.pdf


  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-26 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-24  3:20 geoff
2005-01-24 11:46 ` boyd, rounin
2005-01-24 13:35 ` Reto -Yeti- Schwarz
2005-01-25 22:00   ` geoff
2005-01-25 22:25     ` boyd, rounin
2005-01-25 23:19       ` Charles Forsyth
2005-01-26  1:44         ` Scott Schwartz
2005-01-26 23:14           ` Taj Khattra [this message]
2005-01-26 23:23             ` C H Forsyth
2005-01-26 10:08       ` Richard Miller

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