[11327] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: How Long to a Multimedia Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Tue Mar 29 10:25:50 1994
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 15:21:59 -0800
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
At 8:15 AM 3/28/94 -0800, Mark Laubach wrote:
>The problem goes beyond Mosaic though. I have a fancy X-terminal here ...
>This just goes to point out that the MM problem is a systems one and not
>just simply an application's problem.
Or, the problem might be that some software written by students is not of
commercial calibre... Sure, it might be super nifty, and it might be
pushing the envelope (at the time), but it might also not have been
designed for "real use" (many are designed to either get something done
that needed to be done, or to satisfy a class/dissertation requirement).
I've seen so many things written by students (and recently graduated
students) that weren't at all efficient, but they worked wonderfully -- the
internals were textbook implementations, not designed with efficiency in
mind let alone maintainability... The real world has a different set of
trade offs than the academic one.
Perhaps, the X Window system is in that same ballpark...
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