From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6e35c0620703070940y68ecc7f6j3115750ddb766c95@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:40:16 -0800 From: "Jack Johnson" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070307084327.Y60404@orthanc.ca> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 19dc6678-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 3/7/07, erik quanstrom wrote: > computers didn't exist until the mid 90s when > berners-lee invented them. When did electricity exist, versus when did electricity exist in the home? For most people in the previous generation, your last statement might as well be true. No one saw the tree fall until the squirrels were on the ground. Anyone in a computer science program currently? Did VMS exist? -Jack