Re: and now for Something Completely Different


Paul Jones (pjones@metalab.unc.edu)
Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:02:22 -0500 (EST)


i'm afraid that the last thing i'd want to do is to be associated with the
longest running and grandest vaporware project in the history of
computing. i use nelson as a way to teach how not to get a project done in
my classes. that said, the technology in xanadu and the assumptions made
about hardware and about networking in same are so stiff and old that
implementing them would be like starting a fire by rubbing two sticks
together when the long term goal is to smelt steel.

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