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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] Consumers? We the eeevil empire are the consumers!
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:05:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4419ADCC-B808-45AE-8AC3-69C06C98779A@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5cdca6f319119ef684252886ead06440@proxima.alt.za>


On 2008-Feb-23, at 21:41 , lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:

> Caveat emptor.  I thought we lived in a world that aimed to please the
> consumer...

There is a lot of PPC-based Apple gear coming on the used equipment
market. Considering the tight control Apple placed on the hardware,
porting the MD kernel bits has many fewer moving targets. And the lack
of hardware documentation sucks equally between the two platforms.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-24  6:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-24  2:19 [9fans] Intel ICH7 AHCI cinap_lenrek
2008-02-24  2:58 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-24  4:22   ` cinap_lenrek
2008-02-24  4:29     ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-24  5:31       ` ron minnich
2008-02-24  5:41         ` lucio
2008-02-24  6:05           ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2008-02-24  6:16             ` [9fans] Consumers? We the eeevil empire are the consumers! lucio
2008-02-24  6:34               ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2008-02-24  6:54                 ` lucio
2008-02-24 12:52                   ` david jeannot
2008-02-24 16:48                     ` lucio
2008-02-24 16:56                       ` lucio
2008-02-24 21:31             ` Dave Eckhardt
2008-02-24 15:09         ` [9fans] Intel ICH7 AHCI erik quanstrom
2008-02-24 21:36       ` cinap_lenrek
2008-02-24 21:57         ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-24 23:03           ` cinap_lenrek
2008-02-24 18:46 [9fans] Consumers? We the eeevil empire are the consumers! john
2008-04-23  9:08 ` eekee57
2008-04-23 14:22   ` John Waters

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