From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44479D04.5040706@lanl.gov> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:39:00 -0600 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails References: <3e1162e60604181454l35bd6917v8a6169c6befd9baa@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60604190725u4d8a123an8fb3ae1c9a383574@mail.gmail.com> <444649C3.8040401@lanl.gov> <44469546.1000500@village.com> In-Reply-To: <44469546.1000500@village.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 41e30380-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Wes Kussmaul wrote: > Ronald G Minnich wrote: > >> you're getting way too fancy. /bin/date anyone? > > > So let me ask a dumb question: why is it Linuxbios instead of 9bios? > > > because the original intent was to use linux as the bios platform. It's still not a bad idea, if you look at EFI you see a poorly-designed OS masquerading as a BIOS. If you're going to use a poorly designed OS, you might as well use one that has drivers and people already understand. ron