Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs?

Re:Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs? by silentbicycle on Saturday August 29, 2009 @09:33AM (#793148)

Rob Pike wrote a good analysis of the situation in 2000: "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" (http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/).

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Re:Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs? by tnovelli on Saturday August 29, 2009 @01:05PM (#793375)

Thanks for depressing me ;-) -- by and large we're in the same sorry situation 9 years later, aren't we?

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Re:Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs? by silentbicycle on Saturday August 29, 2009 @01:37PM (#793413)

The mainstream adoption of the web has carried some breakthroughs with it, but it's also held others back (witness the problems caused by people still using IE6). It's nothing new, though - a lot of seemingly novel ideas getting attention now date back to the 70s. The software industry has always been about standing on the toes of giants.

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