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From: Stephen King <sjking@bconnex.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] old NEC Versa S/50 useful?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 08:46:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B24417D.4BD60FB7@bconnex.net> (raw)


I gather from all that I've read here and in the various FAQ that I will
be able to get plan 9 running on my NEC Versa S/50 once I get a larger
hard drive and NIC. Question is, will I then be able to do anything
useful with it? I'm wondering about the performance I might expect from
a 50MHz '486 - will it be so sluggish that I'll wish I hadn't bothered?
This machine served me well for years, but Win3.1 has had it's time ;-)

BTW. My other machine's a 7 year old Indy and it's going to give me a
few more years of service!

I HATE throwing away hardware that still works, and I really want to try
a few things with Plan 9.

Thanks!

-- 
"I think my life is fuller because I realize that I
don't know what I'm doing" - Richard Feynman, 1979.


             reply	other threads:[~2001-06-11  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-11  8:46 Stephen King [this message]
2001-06-11  9:24 ` pac
2001-06-11 14:51 Laura Creighton
2001-06-11 14:57 presotto
2001-06-11 15:46 ` Dan Cross
2001-06-11 15:17 F.J.Ballesteros
2001-06-12 11:00 ` pac

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