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From: Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] WRT54G Port?
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:46:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060116024639.GW80710@cassie.foobarbaz.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <775b8d190601151800m72363e60t89eecc5f0773e49b@mail.gmail.com>

fire is always my first choice. but that's not really
surprising, i guess, since i'm a wildland firefighter.

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:00:19PM +1100, Bruce Ellis wrote:
> burning?  never thought of that.  mr shredder had trouble.
> 
> brucee
> 
> On 1/16/06, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
> > Bruce Ellis wrote:
> > > I do recall that you had to have the *right* linux wrt but newer ones could
> > > be *downgraded*.  vxworks?  yuck.  no chance of getting emu to run on
> > > that crap. linux/pthreads is icky enough.
> > >
> >
> >
> > vxworks? Not the last time I looked. :-)
> >
> > vx-doesn't-work
> >
> > I once had to work on a 64-node multiprocessor running this os. (did I
> > call it an OS? really? WHAT was I thinking?)
> >
> > The major effort was to get a computation to return the same result
> > twice, without rebooting the whole system.
> >
> > We never did.
> >
> > Chuck Cranor ported NetBSD to this system; then life got bearable.
> > Burning the vxworks manuals was fun.
> >
> > ron
> >
> 

-- 
Christopher Nielsen
"They who can give up essential liberty for temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-16  2:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-15  1:11 Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-01-15  1:46 ` geoff
2006-01-15  5:27   ` zuzu
2006-01-15  6:37     ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-15 20:57       ` Charles Forsyth
2006-01-15 21:14         ` Nigel Roles
2006-01-16  0:10           ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-01-16  0:16             ` Charles Forsyth
2006-01-16  1:33               ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-16  1:44                 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-01-16  2:00                   ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-16  2:46                     ` Christopher Nielsen [this message]
2006-01-16  3:12                       ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-01-16  4:00                     ` Dan Cross
2006-01-16  4:45                       ` [9fans] " Uriel
2006-01-16  9:19                         ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-15 21:17         ` [9fans] " Taj Khattra
2006-01-16 12:50 Brantley Coile
2006-01-16 13:13 ` Bruce Ellis

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