From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] third edition, installation experiences
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 13:54:56 -0400
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
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A few more first impressions:

The other day I said something about not being able to
assign an irq.  The actual error message was:

  i8259enable: irq 7 shared but not level
  intrenable: couldn't enable irq 7, tbdf 0xffffffff for lpt

According to '#P/irqalloc',  irq 7 is assigned to mathemu.

I also had my first crash.  I echo-ed "kill" to the control
file of a process '#IOtcpack".  Instant reboot.

My cdrom is recognized (cat sdD0/ctl looks sensible), but
the data file is all zeros.

/dev/draw seems slower than /dev/bitblt.  I wonder if the difference is
from not doing runtime code generation.

Plumbing is... interesting.  I normally like to have several editors
running, keeping different work in different contexts.  The new system
makes that difficult, because when one editor opens a file, the
others want to open it too.