From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <443a84b560f95c935dfbc1ea444ec321@proxima.alt.za> To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 07:29:30 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Harvey OS: A new OS inspired heavily by Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 64426c24-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > My mouse on the windows 7 desktop is connected via USB and has no outages. I still own, but not use - I really ought to - some serial three-button mice. I have noi doubt that I would get no outage from them, too. And, on a different sidetrack: why is it inconceivable for GCC (or Clang, for that matter) to be able to bootstrap itself, the way GCC used to? Why was it thought sensible to sever that continuity? Lucio.