From: Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Virtual PC 6 PCI device probe failure
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:42:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030625204236.GF7193@cassie.foobarbaz.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2BAB3889-A74D-11D7-8B4F-000393D34A62@orthanc.ab.ca>
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:39:51PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>
> I disagree with the portability argument. FreeBSD boots on every PC I
> have, including VPC. Plan9 doesn't boot on VPC.
>
> The BIOS may be ugly, but it works. Since I have to get Plan9 running
> under VPC, you can guess which argument wins on this side of the
> keyboard.
As jmk pointed out, it doesn't work on anything that
doesn't have a bios. Not everything in the world is
a PC.
--
Christopher Nielsen
"They who can give up essential liberty for temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-25 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-25 3:47 Lyndon Nerenberg
2003-06-25 15:06 ` jmk
2003-06-25 19:09 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2003-06-25 19:55 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2003-06-25 20:10 ` David Presotto
2003-06-25 20:20 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-06-25 20:35 ` jmk
2003-06-25 20:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2003-06-25 20:32 ` ron minnich
2003-06-25 20:39 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2003-06-25 20:42 ` Christopher Nielsen [this message]
2003-06-25 20:49 ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-25 21:04 ` ron minnich
2003-06-26 0:08 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2003-06-25 20:41 jmk
2003-06-25 20:44 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
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