On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:14:31PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: > > But that >100 year old technology used to be DC earlier, then it was > > converted to AC because of its inherent benefits. > > way over a hundred years ago, yes (except for some small irrelevant > isles like parts of new york if memory serves).
Even new york stopped doing it last year. There is no more DC current being served. > > > Similarly, wouldn't it have been beneficial to go for a modern > > approach for the network stack? There only is perceived benefit; which clearly mean you fell for the marketing bullets. Good, go buy sun stuff and run their OS. It is as nice a UNIX as you'll find. > > we have a very modern approach: correct, secure and fast. Amen! > > > (not that now I can do anything about it, all's lost for me) Maybe some drama classes are in order. > > Could you please read http://research.sun.com/minds/2007-0710/ > > yeah, i did, lots of marketing blubber, lots of bla bla, lots of vague > indications, nothing concrete, nothing technical. That piece was more than worthless. Some ding dong said "ooh ooh I made it faster". Well fantastic! Unfortunately there is no quantification of faster. 0 x fast is still 0. Besides if you actually understood the beauty and elegance that is the OpenBSD TCP/IP stack you wouldn't be yammering about marketing horseshit. Old != bad. Actually, over the last few years in computer land new == bad (java, xml, c++ etc).
