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From: John Murdie <john@cs.york.ac.uk>
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Subject: [9fans] Re: `Grid Computing' - reinventing the Plan 9 wheel?
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:49:33 +0000
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On 10 Jan, To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu wrote:
> http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2835949,00.html
>
> (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.)

Also, I see that the columnist writes that the claimed inventor of the
modem ``released his code to the pubic [sic] domain''.
--

John A. Murdie
Experimental Officer (Software)
Department of Computer Science
University of York
England