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All right, yes, PS/2 spearheaded many more widely-used technologies than the keyboard and mouse port. Plan 9 also pioneered many things now widely used, includ
by teddyh 4y ago
All right, yes, PS/2 spearheaded many more widely-used technologies than the keyboard and mouse port. Plan 9 also pioneered many things now widely used, including UTF-8. Now, does this in any way invalidate the analogy? If not, why go to such lengths in disproving a minor detail? The topic was Plan 9, and I made a comparison to IBM PS/2. Why write a minor essay about some detail about PS/2 which I got wrong, when that wasn’t the topic?
- lproven 4y agoSee the quote of yours that I started with. You are saying nothing else remains of the PS/2 than its mouse/keyboard port. That is not true. Lots of things from the PS/2 remain apart from that. That's it. That is the point. Not metaphors, not concepts, not influence. You said it only left 1 thing behind. It didn't. It shaped the whole PC industry from then on. All PCs after the PS/2 used PS/2 ports and PS/2 displays and PS/2 format storage media. OK, I concede, the stuff about the PS/2 driving Windows is a different issue: that's the inverse, the negative, the shape it left. But the ports and the media still stand.
- teddyh 4y agoYes, but how does this relate to Plan 9?