From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Andrew Simmons" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [9fans] only old hardware supported? Message-ID: <3D4A4B25.27252.1304469D@localhost> In-reply-to: <3D48F0AF.8090806@mac.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:04:37 +1200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d6ed2f70-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > So maybe Plan9 wouldn't even run on the > new computer which I want to buy, right! > > Phil One option you could look at is running Plan9 under VMWare, which has a 30 day trial option, and costs around $US300 for the full version. Performance won't be that stellar, but it's not bad - I'm running it on a 700MHz machine with 128Mb RAM and it works fine.