From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laura Creighton Message-Id: <200106111451.QAA17134@boris.cd.chalmers.se> To: sjking@bconnex.net Subject: Re: [9fans] old NEC Versa S/50 useful? Cc: lac@cd.chalmers.se, 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:51:06 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b45a691a-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 The largest problem we have in popularising Plan 9 is finding old enough hardware to run it on because it will not run on any of the new stuff. The reason that we have this problem is because the people in 1127 are so completely satisfied with their ability to do major amounts of real work with the anceint hardware they have got that they couldn't be bothered to go to the computer hardware store and buy something made in the past decade, _even though they are aware that people who want to run plan 9 cannot now because they can't find old enough hardware_. (Also because people like me haven't made a VM ware port yet because we are too damn busy with the rest of our lives, as usual.) I'd say _speed_ is not going to be a problem for you. While I am here. Thank you ever so much for so many hours of enjoyment. Laura