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From: Rick Hohensee <humbubba@smarty.smart.net>
Message-Id: <200010091257.IAA18074@smarty.smart.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Are nvidia-cards working with plan9?
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Date: Mon,  9 Oct 2000 08:57:08 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20001009120256.B29182@cackle.proxima.alt.za> from "Lucio De Re" at Oct 9, 0 12:02:56 pm
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> >
> Considering the Tcl/Tk extreme measure mentioned above, I don't see the
> obstacles.  Think Intel 860 (in today's terms) on the one side, and Power
> PC on the user end.
>
> > > The other question, unfortunately, is whether there is any room
> > > for the double Steves of the world, I mean, garage engineering
> > > making it big?


Chuck Moore, author of Forth, designs CPUs in his kitchen. Not FPGAs,
fast small silicon. It takes some funding to get a fab run, but if you
have a chip, funding shouldn't be too too tough. Chuck's stuff is
weird, but it screams. So the means to make it exist. How big is another
matter. I like to think Microsoft, for example, is an unfortunate
(for the rest of us) fluke.


Rick Hohensee
r@cLIeNUX.com



> >
> > I think you left out a "b".
>
> Oops, I must more stupid than normally accounted for :-)  Private
> explanation, please!  :-)  :-)  :-)
>
> ++L
>