From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <283f5df105072220303ed32d57@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:30:58 -0500 From: LiteStar numnums To: David Leimbach , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] First-timer help In-Reply-To: <3e1162e605072208362ab984d4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <3e1162e605072208362ab984d4@mail.gmail.com> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6ebe7638-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 If by 'interesting' you mean 'a rather odd conglomerate of Unix and OpenVMS smashed into a small space', then I would agree. It was even more fun to boot WinNT on my first alpha... and try to figure out how to disable the stupid ARC junk... =3D) -- Stefan On 7/22/05, David Leimbach wrote: > On 7/22/05, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > > > it will be even more fun with the newer BIOSes (e.g. EFI) that suppor= t > > > arbitrary driver modules, tasks, and can even run programs. All store= d on > > > a flash file system on the mainboard. > > > > Didn't HP (many years ago) make a desktop machine with Unix in ROM? > > > > -- Richard > > >=20 > SRM firmware was almost unixy enough on DEC Alphas... But it could be > "interesting" at times >=20 > > >=20 --=20 In possibility the eternal, rightly understood, continually lays out only a small piece at a time In possibility the eternal is continually near enough to be at hand and yet far enough away to keep man advancing towards the eternal, on the way, in forward movement. In this way the ternal lures and draws a person, in the possible, from craddle to grave if he just chooses to hope <>