From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] `Grid Computing' - reinventing the Plan 9 wheel?
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:48:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wuypoi6t.fsf@becket.becket.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16Ocdq-00057w-00@minster.cs.york.ac.uk>
john@cs.york.ac.uk (John Murdie) writes:
> (Incidentally, I find myself wondering whether the columnist knows the
> derivation of the technical term ``modem'' - see the 6th paragraph of
> his article. My major point is that I wonder whether either the
> columnist or the people of the project he describes have heard of Plan
> 9.)
Um, Ward Christensen did in fact which xmodem, which was called
"modem.asm" originally--that is, a "program called modem" in the words
of the column. The columnist might well not know
"modulator/demodulator", but Christensen did actually write the
described program, which was a key step in the development of the BBS
culture.
So the columnist does seem to be a bit ignorant of True History, but
still, didn't get wrong the basic facts that he relates.
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-11 9:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-10 10:40 John Murdie
2002-01-10 10:49 ` [9fans] " John Murdie
2002-01-11 9:48 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG [this message]
2002-01-24 9:41 ` [9fans] ext2 mounting -- pls. help! cej
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