8 Feb
2018
8 Feb
'18
4:38 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 2:06 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
One might suggest it was pretty damned elegant for
the time.
yes, it was quite fine then.
Getting distributed systems right is not simple. There have been lots of
efforts to get it right by larding more and more software over what's
already there. It can be made to work but it's never very nice. I tend to
prefer the take stuff away approach myself, but to each his own.
ron