Re: [9fans] old NEC Versa S/50 useful?

[Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>]

In article <20010611145718.C301D199F6@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
>That's unfair and not even true.

I agree that it's untrue; I've used Plan 9 on some pretty serious and
pretty modern hardware.  However, I *do* think that it's fair to say
that there's a certain lack of device drivers which in a sense is
fairly limiting, if for no other reason than unsupported hardware is,
often so much more prevalent than supported.  SCSI controllers are a
good example; the lack of an Adaptec AIC7xxx driver is frustrating,
particularly since those show up on a lot of motherboards.  Similarly,
video hardware support can be frustrating (though I think the recent
addition of an nVidia driver has helped tremendously).

I suppose the solution is for people (not necessarily 1127) to write
more device drivers.  :-)

	- Dan C.