Re: LINUX is obsolete
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Re: LINUX is obsolete
in comp.os.minix, dsmythe@netcom.COM (Dave Smythe) said:
>In article <1992Feb5.145630.759@wpi.WPI.EDU> entropy@wintermute.WPI.EDU (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
>
>David Cheriton (Prof. at Stanford, and author of the V system) said something
>similar to this in a class in distributed systems. Paraphrased:
>
> "There are two kinds of researchers: those that have implemented
> something and those that have not. The latter will tell you that
> there are 142 ways of doing things and that there isn't consensus
> on which is best. The former will simply tell you that 141 of
> them don't work."
>
Yeah, but what's the odds on two who have implemented something differently
agreeing on which 141 don't work?
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mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)