From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Murdie To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Cc: John Murdie In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: Subject: [9fans] Re: `Grid Computing' - reinventing the Plan 9 wheel? Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:49:33 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3cbb9720-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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