From: "Geo." 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in
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> That's coz you yanks live in the dark ages of wireless . Here the
higher
> population density & I suppose cultural conditions make the mobile the
piece of
> electronics everyone has. I myself no longer wear a watch coz I use my
phone to
> tell the time because it has a clock & I always have it.

Everyone has a cel phone here as well, but they are always talking on it so
not much time to use it to play games.

> In a way but now it's the same wrt DVD'es such that in the "spinning
silver
> disk" category there are still at least 2+ formats (CD & DVD)
& that
doesn't
> even begin to tackle CD/RW, DVD-R, DVD+R DVD+RW etc.etc.

I think DVD fragmentation has been done on purpose by content industry. But
now with DVD burners becoming more consumer level devices we are starting
to see some standardization. Go to the store and look at what formats are
available in blank media, you can easily tell which sells the most. But the
standard is still emerging, it's not quite there yet.

> On linux I can assume that. It's just solaris as each Unix tends towards
one of
> the shells. I seem to remember that on AIX it's KSH.

On AIX the shell is called smit 

Geo.

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