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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: jcwjr215@gmail.com, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:23:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <443aa6d9a2c7e6f452c4e0dd3199b62b@quanstro.net> (raw)

> Indeed,
> I have been toying around with the idea of building a larger scale
> version of Mr. Minnich's lunchbox using Mini-ITX boards..
> But I have no justification, since virtually everything i need to do
> with plan 9 happens impossibly fast on just a simple vmware instance.
> Plan9 is sufficiently speedy to stifle my desire to build a fast system.

small pcs price/performance ratio is too high for me if all i want is a pc.
it's hard to beat a $50 motherboard and a $34 processor.

but for other small appliance-y things, some very-low power mips or arm
boards are attactive.

- erik



             reply	other threads:[~2008-07-15 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-15 16:23 erik quanstrom [this message]
     [not found] <b3d39ccfed51c9103afdc527ef7bbf31@quanstro.net>
2008-07-15  9:06 ` matt
2008-07-15 11:49   ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-15 14:18     ` John Waters
     [not found] <bcf6455ae643bb5cb35cb1b7877e2401@quanstro.net>
2008-07-13 20:13 ` matt
2008-07-13 20:54   ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-13 22:20     ` matt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-07-11 12:31 erik quanstrom
2008-07-11 12:23 matt

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