Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users not believe it

2011-06-21 Thread William Cowan
Iruat?? Souza wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Guilherme Lino wrote: >> better with it... but generally keyboard is much faster on most day tasks, >> people just don't have the patience to learn it >> > Measuring the keyboard versus mouse speed is such a trivial experiment > to repeat.

Re: [9fans] Plan ?

2010-04-01 Thread William Cowan
Patrick Kelly wrote: > On Mar 30, 2010, at 14:23, Jack Johnson wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Patrick Kelly >> wrote: >>> Read up on why Plan 9 was written. We've been succeeding for 20 >>> years so >>> far. >> >> I think this is an interesting comment in light of the evolution

Re: [9fans] parallels

2010-01-15 Thread William Cowan
erik quanstrom wrote: > it's unfortunate that computer history isn't a bigger > component of a computer science degree. in the > case of vm, it's not even history; still alive and doing > quite well as z/(vm|os) on slightly modified power arch > hardware. > - erik Not very mysterious to me. Th