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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ati mobility on the horizon?
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 12:24:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020520122437.J15608@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MPG.17503f28752d7018989681@news-central.giganews.com>; from sparkane on Mon, May 20, 2002 at 09:54:38AM +0000

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 09:54:38AM +0000, sparkane wrote:
>
> I was just wondering if anyone knew if, and if = 'yes' then when, there
> may be support in plan 9 for the ati mobility chip. I got a new big hard
> drive on my inspiron 5000e and was all set to put p9 on a partition, and
> then sorrow at reading the required hardware.
>
I tried to reply privately, but your e-mail address seems to be
invalid.

The jist of my reply was that Plan 9 doesn't yet have the following
that makes device drivers appear nearly as fast as devices are
produced.

> if there will be none ever | not for a long time, maybe someone could
> suggest what else I can use that partition for. (Not linux, that I
> already got! :)
>
Maybe you can use it for a combination CPU- and file server and access
it from a networked workstation, be it Plan 9 or Linux/Windows based
(see drawterm).

++L


      reply	other threads:[~2002-05-20 10:24 UTC|newest]

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2002-05-20  9:54 sparkane
2002-05-20 10:24 ` Lucio De Re [this message]

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