Re: [9fans] non-intel plan9 servers/terminals

Re: [9fans] non-intel plan9 servers/terminals

[forsyth]

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>>hp9000 400 series (68030, 68040)
>>DEC-Alpha based terminals (UDB with no hard drive)
>>Sun Sparc-1

they all require work.
choices one and three require much work and fasting.
choice two might require less work but even if not gives you a better computer
as a result.


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From: andrey mirtchovski <aam396@mail.usask.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] non-intel plan9 servers/terminals
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:26:43 -0600
Message-ID: <3980D343.34C9447C@mail.usask.ca>

Hi again,

I am given the following choice of platforms on which to play with
plan9:

hp9000 400 series (68030, 68040)
DEC-Alpha based terminals (UDB with no hard drive)
Sun Sparc-1

My question is how much/little are those usable in a plan9 environment?
Granted I do not know their hardware specs (i.e. graphics card, scsi
adapter if any, etc) how much would I be dependent on an intel machine
to netboot/fileserve off?

My estimation is that as soon as I have a (intel?) machine as a
fileserver and another (intel?) to netboot off I would be able to use
any of the above machines as cpu servers. Is this correct? Has anyone
been building kernels for non-intel architectures?


any pointers to documentation would suffice.

thanks: andrey

[9fans] non-intel plan9 servers/terminals

[andrey mirtchovski]

Hi again,

I am given the following choice of platforms on which to play with
plan9:

hp9000 400 series (68030, 68040)
DEC-Alpha based terminals (UDB with no hard drive)
Sun Sparc-1

My question is how much/little are those usable in a plan9 environment?
Granted I do not know their hardware specs (i.e. graphics card, scsi
adapter if any, etc) how much would I be dependent on an intel machine
to netboot/fileserve off?

My estimation is that as soon as I have a (intel?) machine as a
fileserver and another (intel?) to netboot off I would be able to use
any of the above machines as cpu servers. Is this correct? Has anyone
been building kernels for non-intel architectures?


any pointers to documentation would suffice.

thanks: andrey