From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] Investigating the Plan 9 Operating System - OSNews.com Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:35:56 -0700 From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60607280701t57d28051n6e720e49428673d2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 92190fde-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I never would have > thought in my younger days that I could even really afford the speed > of ethernet I have at home, much less run a distributed OS like I can. it takes the children of one revolution to start another revolution. if you tried to keep to last generation's expectations, you get something like gopher; but when you ignore those limitations you'd get something like www and mosaic. gopher died of (licensing aside), keeping to old assumptions: it was bandwidth efficient and didn't have frivolous things like images. to paraphrase a friend of mine, metcalf's and moore's law are on our side. start building distributed systems now.