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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] how small can you get
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Date: Fri,  8 Feb 2002 12:14:27 -0500
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On Fri Feb  8 11:43:15 EST 2002, rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
> That tiny kernel from anothy is pretty encouraging.
> 
> OK, unless it makes people REALLY unhappy, we're going to look into a way
> to get plan9 to boot plan9. We're finding that OSes make pretty good
> bootstraps, since they generally are current on hardware bugs and glitches
> that bootstrap loaders lag on. Making an OS boot an OS is not that hard
> anyway.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> ron

Also, that's exactly what we did 10 years ago when we used to build hardware.
The Hobbit board ROM monitor was just a Plan 9 kernel with a slightly different
memory mapping and /boot replaced with interactive code.