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Comment Re: 50 is fitting (Score 1) 101

I had the same experience with a coworker at AOL in the 1990s.
He blamed his left pinky arthritis on Emacs' requirement of using the CTRL key for practically everything.

Comment Re:Bad Economics (Score 3, Interesting) 96

I was in this industry for a time.

FTTH is prohibitively expensive for rural telecoms, but government subsidies made it affordable. I'm still mystified by the economies of this.

For non-rural areas, Verizon almost financially died from deploying FiOS FTTH. There's a reason they tried and sued to stopped deploying in NYC and sold off other plants to Frontier years ago. (Verizon eventually bought Frontier about a decade later, btw).

The right answer is and always has been Fiber-to-the-Neighborhood nodes and then delivering broadband via copper coaxial cables.

Indeed, for more than a decade, the connection between my FiOS device and my router was a 1 GHz copper coaxial cable.
We have experienced no speed improvements (up or down) when we upgraded to total ethernet from the FiOS device.

Comment Re:wow (Score 1) 43

They didn't support SMP for a long time either.

That alone kept the *BSDs out of my home lab for years.

Reminds me of the Red Hat glib pthreads debacle of the late 1990s.

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