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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] alright, this should be interesting
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:47:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a76b0196919adf24433d31c414f2b326@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0410191516390.6863@linux.site>

one aspect of `personality' can be hard to emulate,
and that is ease of getting the whole system to be
more nearly correct (and maintainable, given that the
underlying system that's doing the emulating might constantly
be changing, with independently changing variants).
it's the old problem of trying to build a sturdy reliable thing
on top of lots of wobbly bits (``they said i was daft to build
castle on swamp, but i built it all the same, just to show them'').
mind you, i suppose that's essentially what is done when an effective
distributed system is built on top of lots of cheap components that
often break down and fall into the swamp.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-19 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-05 17:36 andrey mirtchovski
2004-10-06  1:07 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-10-06  1:25   ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-10-06  5:25     ` geoff
2004-10-06  7:52   ` C H Forsyth
2004-10-18 16:05     ` Leo Caves
2004-10-19  2:50       ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-10-19 15:44         ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-19 15:57           ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-19 19:45             ` Tim Newsham
2004-10-19 21:22               ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-19 22:47                 ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2004-10-19 23:39                   ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-20  3:25                 ` Tim Newsham
2004-10-20  9:46                   ` Steve Simon
2004-10-20 14:20                     ` Russ Cox
2004-10-20 19:47                   ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-20 20:29                     ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-20 20:41                     ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-21  1:31                     ` Tim Newsham
2004-10-21 16:19                       ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-19 23:17               ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-20  4:01                 ` Tim Newsham
2004-10-20  4:19                   ` Russ Cox
2004-10-20  4:27                     ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-10-20  6:23                     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-10-20  7:36                       ` Nigel Roles
2004-10-20 11:20                         ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-20 12:36                           ` Nigel Roles
2004-10-20 13:45                             ` Brantley Coile
2004-10-24  5:33                               ` Dan Cross
2004-10-24 11:53                                 ` Tiit Lankots
2004-10-24 13:44                                   ` Brantley Coile
2004-10-25 11:23                                     ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-20 17:06                         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-10-22  7:12                           ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-22 19:02                             ` Jason Gurtz
2004-10-23  1:27                               ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-20 18:40                         ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-20 20:16                           ` Nigel Roles
2004-10-20 20:46                             ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-20 19:59                       ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-20 20:02                         ` Russ Cox
2004-10-20 20:05                           ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2004-10-20 20:25                           ` Charles Forsyth
2004-10-20 20:48                             ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-21 18:36                             ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-21  4:47                           ` William Josephson
2004-10-20 20:44                         ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-23 18:54                           ` Dan Cross
2004-10-20 11:13                     ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-20 11:09                   ` Dave Lukes

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