From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <3B7ACCB1.E6AFF32A@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20010815015220.6F5F219A27@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] dull question #1 Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:27:19 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: de57447c-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > in use. One real problem was the long startup time: > about 9 minutes to download the system, which had to be > done perhaps daily because neither of the terminals had > more than a small ROM (no flash, no floppy). In later commercial versions, the "layers" system was preloaded (in terminal ROM), which helped a lot. By the way, I have a bunch of 5620s and a coule of 630s I plan to restore then find good homes for. If anybody has others (also 730s) they want to contribute, feel free to contact me about shipping/pickup.