From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:33:46 +0100 From: Enrico Weigelt To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20091126233345.GG25437@nibiru.local> References: <0a3d54b81b974e0aa16f202e17b2cd3f@yyc.orthanc.ca> <4B0EF3CB.4010601@conducive.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B0EF3CB.4010601@conducive.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners] Topicbox-Message-UUID: a3589950-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 * W B Hacker wrote: > Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote: > >>linux is actually quite easy and has been for about 12 years or more > >>... not sure of the others. > > > >I was running diskless Windows in 1995; it wasn't pretty, but it could > >be done. These days you can run XP+ diskless if you have the right > >Windows Server and installation tools fu. > > > > > > > > Don't get me started on diode plugboard 'ROM', mercury or nickel-iron delay > lines and 'upgrading' to mag drum memory now... This is one of the days when this list feels like an veteran meeting ;-) I'm probably one of the youngest here, i didn't have the honour to do my first steps on punchtapes ;-o cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weigelt@metux.de mobile: +49 174 7066481 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------