User: lambda9999

Re:Universe's container

On: Find Out About the Future of Science

That an unbounded surface is flat
does not mean that it is infinite.

For instance, the surface of a torus is flat
and it is indeed finite.

Re:What we need is a ISO standard

On: Tim Bray on Microsoft Office

The ISO tried it. It was called ODA
and was a complete failure.

Re:Don't feel bad

On: Miyazaki's Spirited Away U.S. Release

The author is probably used to RTF, not XML ;-)

Re:Why let Hollywood stop it?

On: More On 'Ender' Film From Orson Scott Card

Why not ask Studio Ghibli if they would be interested in making an anime of it ?

Re:Because it's there...

On: Debian On Compaq's iPaq Handheld

There's a guy in Scandanavia this week that has found an old Honeywell DPS-6 that is trying to figure out if there is any hope of refurbishing it to run Multics. It's a forlorn hope; he might conceivably get it to run GCOS, with a little luck, and perhaps some help from Thinkage.

Multics run on DPS-8 (a mainframe), not DPS-6 (a minicomputer)