From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3ED39FCD.90306@ameritech.net> From: northern snowfall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020518 Netscape6/6.2.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] 9fans in Canada? References: <200305271616.MAA23113@plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 12:26:37 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b9cdf40a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > > >Well, Linux pays the bills around here, so don't get your hopes up. > ... >Sure, it would be nice to have 9 on our V880, > Oh hell yeah >but the machines I get to >play around with are ia64s. Which has led to some idle speculation on >my part, but the idea of writing an EPIC compiler sounds like more than >a spare-time project to me. I reserve the right to have a life. > What are the specs on the ia64s? I'm just curious.. >I only mention Wily because I have noted that a large part of the >resistance to 9 in the unconverted centers around the UI. Baby >steps... > Yeah, thats true. >