From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 14:19:33 -0400
From: Anthony Sorace anothy@eden.rutgers.edu
Subject: [9fans] hardware documentation (was Plan 9 future)
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//The move towards a common bus (PCI) may help, but only if we
//have at least one viable competitor to Microsoft

even horridly ugly things can be useful. Microsoft's crap's
always been so bad that anything that could run the latest
version of Windows was entry-level server hardware if given
a real OS. and Linux is useful for getting documentation out
of people, even if it's only in the form of source code.

i've worked with boards from moto, intel, and mips, and have
been impressed with their documentation (yes, even intel's).
but most of these guys make boards, not systems. and turning
one into the other isn't where i want to spend my time, and
certainly isn't my area of expertise.
: anothy;