From: Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] parallels
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:47:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A609567C-C561-45E8-9C9E-E273D437AF4B@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hiq52d$3ho$2@rumours.uwaterloo.ca>
On Jan 15, 2010, at 4:51 PM, William Cowan <wmcowan@uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
>
>> it's unfortunate that computer history isn't a bigger
>> component of a computer science degree. in the
>> case of vm, it's not even history; still alive and doing
>> quite well as z/(vm|os) on slightly modified power arch
>> hardware.
>
>> - erik
>
> Not very mysterious to me. There's not very much science in computer
> science. If we didn't forget it we wouldn't be able to re-invent it,
> and
> there would go most of the interesting work, not to mention a lot of
> high salary jobs.
But how much of this work is actually redundant?
>
> s
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-20 0:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-08 10:44 Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-01-08 10:48 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-01-08 18:58 ` geoff
2010-01-08 19:00 ` David Leimbach
2010-01-08 16:49 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-08 19:12 ` geoff
2010-01-08 16:52 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-08 19:18 ` ron minnich
2010-01-08 16:55 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-08 19:40 ` François Revol
2010-01-08 19:23 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-08 19:26 ` Corey Thomasson
2010-01-08 19:28 ` lucio
2010-01-08 19:46 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-08 17:02 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-10 14:37 ` Robert Raschke
2010-01-08 20:30 ` lucio
2010-01-15 16:51 ` William Cowan
2010-01-15 17:30 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-20 0:47 ` Patrick Kelly [this message]
2010-01-20 1:00 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-08 19:26 ` Iruata Souza
2010-01-08 19:48 ` Tim Newsham
2010-01-08 19:42 ` Bakul Shah
2010-01-08 19:45 ` Tim Newsham
2010-01-08 19:47 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-01-08 20:04 ` François Revol
2010-01-09 9:08 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-01-09 14:53 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-09 16:10 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-01-09 16:14 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-09 17:08 ` Joseph Stewart
2010-01-09 17:20 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-01-09 23:38 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-02-10 15:51 ` akss
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