From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 15:29:08 -0700 From: Kurt H Maier To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20181010222908.GA42736@wopr> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [9fans] PDP11 (Was: Re: what heavy negativity!) Topicbox-Message-UUID: eb7a9694-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 04:54:22PM -0500, Steven Stallion wrote: > As the guy might be worth keeping in mind the current most common use case for nvme is laptop storage and not building jet engines in coraid's basement so the nvme driver that cinap wrote works on my thinkpad today and is about infinity times faster than the one you guys locked up in the warehouse at the end of raiders of the lost ark, because my laptop can't seem to boot off nostalgia. so no, nobody gets an award for writing a driver. but cinap won the 9front Order of Valorous Service (with bronze oak leaf cluster, signifying working code) for *releasing* one. I was there when field marshal aiju presented the award; it was a very nice ceremony. anyway, someone once said communication is not a zero-sum game. the hyperspecific use case you describe is fine but there are other reasons to care about how well this stuff works, you know? khm