From: John DeGood <jdegood@comcast.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 386
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 19:45:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <436409AE.7030006@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4363EEDC.6090806@lanl.gov>
> Old hardware, let it RIP. Or use it for door stops, or performance art.
Here in the US, vintage Pentium systems are essentially free. Several
months ago I purchased a bundle consisting of a 300Mhz Pentium II, 440LX
motherboard, and 64MBytes SDRAM on eBay for a penny (shipping was $8.)
The 60 MHz Pentium was introduced in March 1993. If we drop 386/486 and
require at least a Pentium, Plan 9 will still run on virtually every
desktop and laptop sold in the past 10 years.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-29 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-29 15:08 Russ Cox
2005-10-29 15:26 ` Lucio De Re
2005-10-29 19:07 ` William Josephson
2005-10-29 20:01 ` jmk
2005-10-29 20:06 ` Lucio De Re
2005-10-29 21:07 ` Uriel
2005-10-29 21:18 ` jmk
2005-10-29 21:51 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-29 22:31 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2005-10-30 0:50 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-30 5:41 ` Jack Johnson
2005-10-30 16:15 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-30 20:02 ` jmk
2005-10-30 20:12 ` Uriel
2005-10-30 20:34 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-10-30 20:52 ` jmk
2005-10-30 21:15 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-10-30 22:56 ` jmk
2005-10-31 0:20 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-31 0:49 ` Russ Cox
2005-10-31 21:26 ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-10-30 21:27 ` Mike Haertel
2005-10-31 10:06 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-10-30 22:11 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-30 21:16 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2005-10-30 21:53 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-29 23:45 ` John DeGood [this message]
2005-10-30 0:04 ` William Josephson
2005-10-30 12:59 ` Brantley Coile
2005-10-30 1:14 ` geoff
2005-10-29 20:22 ` Christopher Nielsen
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