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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Crazy idea... or a new project?
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 19:05:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001124000509.EF643199EE@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)

I don't agree about the x86.
Sure it's an ugly chip.
Sure it and its PC hosts are complicated.
But the bootstrap code and the compiler
are written.  In Plan 9, it's no different
to write applications for the x86 than it
is to write them for any other architecture.

Russ


             reply	other threads:[~2000-11-24  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-24  0:05 Russ Cox [this message]
2000-11-24  0:08 ` Boyd Roberts
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-27  2:36 okamoto
2000-11-27  6:16 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-27  8:21   ` Andy Newman
2000-11-24 23:47 rob pike
2000-11-24 23:52 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-25 18:52 ` Fariborz 'Skip' Tavakkolian
2000-11-24 22:40 presotto
2000-11-24 22:16 rob pike
2000-11-24 19:05 rob pike
2000-11-24 21:06 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2000-11-24 21:28   ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-24 23:37     ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2000-11-24 23:40       ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-25  1:57         ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2000-11-24  8:37 nemo
     [not found] <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2000-11-24  0:41 ` rob pike
2000-11-24  0:48   ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-24 22:13   ` Scott Schwartz
2000-11-24 22:24     ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-23 13:25 Andrew Zubinski
2000-11-23 22:51 ` Richard
2000-11-23 22:55 ` Boyd Roberts

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