From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 04:03:06 +0000 Message-ID: <20141202040306.Horde.F9NrkN7urXV8lomBO7R6OA1@ssl.eumx.net> From: Kurt H Maier To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <1417410858.1852249.197150289.78A68333@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1417423412.1914203.197194673.02F8E8C7@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20141202005623.Horde.7OYyDZ5A8-3_91Rj2J4RKw1@ssl.eumx.net> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H5 (6.2.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed; DelSp=Yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] Porting plan9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 31937318-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Quoting Steven Stallion : > Clearly you've never worked on hardware. No, thank Christ, my conscience is clean. Instead I work on software, and uboot is a fine example of "well it builds on my laptop" development paradigms. Plenty glad I don't have to screw with such nonsense any more, and even more glad the company I work for has got out of the habit of compensating for bad hw designs by spackling things over with "it builds, ship it" code. khm