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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9 on VMware
Date: Tue,  1 May 2001 08:38:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AEDA5E8.C9BF26D@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2283649171.20010430142045@proweb.co.uk>

matt wrote:
> Surely, people get turned off plan9 by having to find
> specific hardware just to try it out!

I'm sure they do, but what is the alternative?
PC clones have so many radically different flavors of
hardware for a given function (such as Ethernet I/F,
video display, mouse) that it is a minor miracle that
the distribution supports as much variety as it does.
A system architect could learn a lot about how not to
do things from the PC experience.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-05-01  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-30 12:10 rob pike
2001-04-30 13:20 ` matt
     [not found]   ` <matt@proweb.co.uk>
2001-04-30 13:34     ` chad
2001-04-30 18:22       ` paurea
2001-05-01  8:38   ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2001-05-01  8:58     ` Re[2]: " matt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-30 19:01 nigel
2001-04-30 14:54 jmk
2001-04-30 14:13 forsyth
2001-04-30  9:25 Bastian Roy

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