From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Nielsen To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Virtual PC 6 PCI device probe failure Message-ID: <20030625204236.GF7193@cassie.foobarbaz.net> References: <2BAB3889-A74D-11D7-8B4F-000393D34A62@orthanc.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2BAB3889-A74D-11D7-8B4F-000393D34A62@orthanc.ab.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:42:36 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: dc4f72b0-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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