From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:08:52 +0100 From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <20120611170852.501bce7c@inari.ethans.dre.am> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Mini PCs Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9c0baf1e-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:19:20 -0400 Comeau At9Fans wrote: > Ok, so, unless I was asleep at the wheel following these > discussions, there's been a few "mini PCs" to come about lately: > > * Raspberry Pi > * Cotton Candy > * Mele A1000 > * MK802 > > We have a small number of the latter (MK802 running Android 4.0, > which claims to have a Allwinner ARM A10 1.5Ghz Cortex-A8 processor) > for sale FWIW. I mention this as LINUX is making its way onto some > of these devices, er computers, so I expect that Plan 9 has possibilities > here too. > I'm still waiting for the Zaurus port somebody did last year or so. ;) Well, I'm not exactly waiting. He said something about "performance problems" which I can believe. Use a couple of pipes (foo|bar|baz) in the Z's native Linux and it about halves the useful performance, so I can't imagine Plan 9 doing well on it. Inferno would probably do better.