From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron minnich To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] fortune-worthy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 21:54:00 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a6bb8e94-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote: > However, now, things have been changed, that is, now most of computer > users are naive users, and they don't want to LEARN computers. In the great days of the 70s, I was a card punch/tape jockey. People were pretty naive users then, believe me. The expectation then was that unix was a nice toy, but the real work would always be done on OS/370. Unix even had to have a JCL command for a while (according to an old V5 man set I once had) for submitting batch jobs to "real" computers. Some things never change, and resistance to new technology is one of them. But, sooner or later, better new stuff will beat out older crap stuff. It just always takes too long, and its easy to get discouraged. Plus, Plan 9 has this artificial and unnecessary 10-year delay thrown in -- it would have been easier had Plan 9 made it out in '91, as we all hoped it would. ron