From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <878ce07b71d96e4a7912b1e2159de216@9srv.net> To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:27:20 -0400 From: a@9srv.net In-Reply-To: <20080630181616.BF1C285E6@okapi.maths.tcd.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] sad commentary Topicbox-Message-UUID: cf1f8e10-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This is a very good point. I mostly learned Unix in a corporate environment, but the same logic holds: somebody else had set up and maintained the systems. // I'm afraid there's not much we can do about this. Other, obviously, than getting uni types to use it there. Plan 9 (like Inferno) has quite a bit to offer from pedagogical view. // Trinity College Dublin Pretty campus, warm sweatshirts. Convince your IT folks. ;-) anthony