From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] The $200 walmart "gPC"
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 06:19:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C04B368-0439-443E-A64F-430595C74A18@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4f34febc0801312147x1d490b50y85e2a344514951d8@mail.gmail.com>
Strange, I looked at the manufacturer's website - not a mention of
Plan 9.
On Feb 1, 2008, at 12:47 AM, John Barham wrote:
>> Seems like a nice fast little machine for Plan 9.
>
> Dirt cheap too. Even w/ Fry's specials it would be hard to put
> together a comparable machine for that amount.
>
> Given that it has VIA's C7 chip which has extra instructions for
> crypto, including SHA1
> (http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/padlock/), it should make a nice
> venti server--although you would probably need to upgrade the 80 GB
> drive... What would be involved in patching Plan 9's libsec to use
> the C7's crypto instructions?
>
> John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-01 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-01 5:33 ron minnich
2008-02-01 5:47 ` John Barham
2008-02-01 11:19 ` Pietro Gagliardi [this message]
2008-02-01 11:41 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-02-01 17:04 ` ron minnich
2008-02-01 11:43 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-02-01 12:00 ` mattmobile
2008-02-01 12:12 ` erik quanstrom
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