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Date: Thu,  4 May 2000 09:59:28 +0000
From: Jolt-Freak stephen@ph01480.freeserve.co.uk
Subject: [9fans] (the potential) new release of Plan9, i386 only?
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>I could live with a distribution that perhaps only came with Intel
>binaries, but at least had the sources and cross compilers to allow
>building of systems for other architectures. I have two Sparc2's
>which are not fast, but they are nicer to work on and have lasted
>much better than Intel machines of similar vintage.

I have been interested reacently In buying a non-*86 machine, But I
have found it next to imposible to find a comparison between the sun
machines and the *86 machines, ie. is a sparc5 better or worse than a
pentium? Could you give me some guidelines?

Jolt-Freak