From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Thinknic and plan9
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 13:18:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010531171819.07444199C0@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
On Thu May 31 12:31:34 EDT 2001, cross@math.psu.edu wrote:
> In article <slrn9h01d5.in7.randolph@panix3.panix.com> you write:
> >I ran across this inexpensive little diskless (it has a CD-ROM) x86
> >box at www.thinknic.com and I think might make an excellent Plan 9
> >terminal. Has anyone tried it?
>
> Hmm, I started looking into this more, because such things interest
> me. The thing is certainly cheap ($199, plus shipping and tax).
> Unfortunately, most of the hardware is unsupported. Well, okay, just
> about everything is unsupported.
Unsupported by current software can be fixed.
Inadequate hardware that's fixed (the video hardware) can't.
Oracle have been trying to market this box under various
guises for something like 5 years, they should give up.
next reply other threads:[~2001-05-31 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-31 17:18 jmk [this message]
2001-05-31 19:56 ` Dan Cross
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2001-05-31 21:08 Russ Cox
2001-05-31 20:48 jmk
2001-05-31 21:58 ` Dan Cross
2001-05-31 19:43 dmr
2001-05-31 20:06 ` Fariborz 'Skip' Tavakkolian
2001-05-31 20:14 ` Dan Cross
2001-05-31 16:35 presotto
2001-05-29 9:16 [9fans] " Randolph Fritz
2001-05-31 16:30 ` [9fans] " Dan Cross
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