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
next prev parent 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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