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Date: Fri,  3 Jun 2005 14:22:53 -0700
From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 on the Cell...
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On 6/3/05, Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
>=20
>=20
> On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Dave Eckhardt wrote:
>=20
> > One thing to be aware of:  PearPC doesn't (at least as of early spring)
> > really implement OpenFirmware.  When (e.g.) MacOS tries to run a piece
> > of forth code, PearPC does switch(strlen(code)) to figure out which
> > hard-coded mock-up to invoke.
>=20
> what a plus. Skip that OF stuff and run it in the OS. This is cool. I'll
> have to try to take a look at that -- is that support stuff available in
> source form?
>=20
> Bios'es are for booting, not normal operation :-)
>=20

This concept is far too simple to be popular.

> ron
>