From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10707311317u7caf126dicdaff101298cfa3d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:17:23 -0700 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] current bitsy status In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: 9fans@coraid.com Topicbox-Message-UUID: 99412cfa-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 7/31/07, erik quanstrom wrote: > "old" is a pervasive epithet with computer platforms > and sw, but i'm not sure it addresses any of the reasons > some bits are better than others. well, that's a good point. The bitsy is quite cool. But it's still dead hardware, and if people are going to expend cycles on something, given the very small # of people who are contributing to Plan 9, it'd be nice if it would be something you don't have to hunt for on ebay. ron