From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <463b1edc9448ebda6cd2a07d955a53e3@terzarima.net> <201106242019.32103.dexen.devries@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:52:39 +0200 Message-ID: From: Francisco J Ballesteros To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] this is kind of sad Topicbox-Message-UUID: f565eabc-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 That was a comment in nix source code :) On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:34 PM, ron minnich wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:19 AM, dexen deVries = wrote: > >> any idea what's up with bell lab's plan 9 server? > > I checked with Central Services and they told me this: > > "=E2=80=A6 an Internet was sent by ... staff at 10 o'clock in the morning= on > Friday.... it got tangled up with all these things going on the > Internet commercially. > ...And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump > something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you > don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, > when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be > delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of > material, enormous amounts of material." > > It seems to be an intertube issue. > > ron > >