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From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 2c/2l make sense, but why 1c/1l?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 11:39:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a4a67d4-120e-49db-a317-194de6bf7cfd@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOw7k5iSNue4=YH7WMS99E9eJai0ybF_oZrEtFzc2er4Bzw9_A@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, at 11:26 PM, Charles Forsyth wrote:
> I think they might have been there for some other reason and then was used for Inferno, which they somewhat had going on a Palm Pilot in some form (not necessarily as the native kernel).
> If I waded through a ton of archive material I could probably find the latter, to see what it was, but I'm not sure it's really worthwhile now.

I know what you mean. I know I've read somewhere what that other reason was, but finding it is a historian's job, and I'm no good at being a historian. ;) I evidently didn't read it on 9fans, I just searched my email archive of it which goes back to late April 2011. 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-25 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-23  7:17 rt9f.3141
2021-02-23 10:29 ` Steve Simon
2021-02-24 19:59   ` Anthony Sorace
2021-02-24 20:14 ` Joseph Stewart
2021-02-24 23:26   ` Charles Forsyth
2021-02-24 23:29     ` Charles Forsyth
2021-02-25  1:02     ` Joseph Stewart
2021-02-25 11:39     ` Ethan Gardener [this message]
2021-02-24 21:49 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-02-28 21:12   ` rt9f.3141

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