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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9 on VMware
Date: Tue,  1 May 2001 08:38:08 +0000
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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.