From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] IEEE 1394 support?
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Date: Fri,  3 Aug 2001 12:15:52 -0400
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On Fri Aug  3 05:14:23 EDT 2001, jas@corpus-callosum.com wrote:
> 
> Has there been any work on getting IEEE 1394 working for Plan 9?
> 
> As more and more devices are becoming available, it would be nice to be able
> to utilize some of them (video, audio, storage ...) with Plan 9 in order
> to potentially share the these connected devices with other machines on the
> network.
> 
> jas

We were interested in doing this a few months ago, when Lucent was merely a
struggling telecommunications manufacturer. Unfortunately, by the time we'd
chosen some equipment we had become beleaguered and no longer had the money
to purchase it.

--jim