From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 386
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 20:04:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051030000439.GA39528@mero.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <436409AE.7030006@comcast.net>
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 07:45:50PM -0400, John DeGood wrote:
> > Old hardware, let it RIP. Or use it for door stops, or performance art.
>
> The 60 MHz Pentium was introduced in March 1993. If we drop 386/486 and
> require at least a Pentium, Plan 9 will still run on virtually every
> desktop and laptop sold in the past 10 years.
The concern has for sometime been embedded hardware, not
desktop hardware. But my impression is that most embedded
applications have shifted away even from the 486 as the
various Pentium clones have become more popular.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-30 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-29 15:08 Russ Cox
2005-10-29 15:26 ` Lucio De Re
2005-10-29 19:07 ` William Josephson
2005-10-29 20:01 ` jmk
2005-10-29 20:06 ` Lucio De Re
2005-10-29 21:07 ` Uriel
2005-10-29 21:18 ` jmk
2005-10-29 21:51 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-29 22:31 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2005-10-30 0:50 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-30 5:41 ` Jack Johnson
2005-10-30 16:15 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-30 20:02 ` jmk
2005-10-30 20:12 ` Uriel
2005-10-30 20:34 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-10-30 20:52 ` jmk
2005-10-30 21:15 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-10-30 22:56 ` jmk
2005-10-31 0:20 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-31 0:49 ` Russ Cox
2005-10-31 21:26 ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-10-30 21:27 ` Mike Haertel
2005-10-31 10:06 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-10-30 22:11 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-30 21:16 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2005-10-30 21:53 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-29 23:45 ` John DeGood
2005-10-30 0:04 ` William Josephson [this message]
2005-10-30 12:59 ` Brantley Coile
2005-10-30 1:14 ` geoff
2005-10-29 20:22 ` Christopher Nielsen
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