From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: a@9srv.net To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: inferno (was Re: [9fans] fortune-worthy) In-Reply-To: <822d83b1d1404e59fefeeb19570a33b7@caldo.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 06:40:37 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: a9042d8c-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 // ...for what their customers often had in mind to do with it, it was us= able. huh. i was in the BU; we had customers? ;-) seriously, i think you're right, but solely because of your follow on sta= tement: they weren't doing anything very interesting. more and more screen phones= , with no particularly interesting software. and the software it did have wasn't= really very good, for the most part; we had a (um, two!) crappy browser, a crapp= y mail program, a decent message center... it's fairly disapointing that the Jetsons-inspired "Concept Phones" tende= d to make for better demos than the Shannon phones (aside from the fact that t= he Shannon hardware was much more reasonable), and the demo apps shipped wit= h the prefab module made a better demo than any of them, even towards the end o= f the BU (especially with the mpeg stuff). mind you, PathStar was amazing, but even though it chronologically overla= pped with the BU, it had basically nothing to do with it. =E3=82=A2