From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4492DF16.7020706@village.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:40:54 -0400 From: Wes Kussmaul User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: Inferno on OLPC? (was Re: [9fans] *poof*) References: <7a33156a1f7ff4688152051f59aecefc@quanstro.net> <2b977395580f363d7a1fadde4dc3c26f@vitanuova.com> <4492CC16.6020308@lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <4492CC16.6020308@lanl.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6bfeae94-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Ronald G Minnich wrote: > Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > >> The right question is, at 10-15W per child, how long will it take a >> child with a crank to power a full Linux build.... >> >> Of course, no local disk may also be a factor there.... > > > actually, the crank is history. I had heard that the crank will be reintroduced on models going to very=20 primitive areas, that it had been removed because it generated=20 distracting a distracting buzz, e.g. "Hey Melinda, what do you call a crank on a computer? Nick Negroponte." --=20 Wes Kussmaul CIO The Village Group 738 Main Street Waltham, MA 02451 781-647-7178 My uncle likes to say that the world=92s biggest troubles started when th= e serpent said, =93Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people co= llectively calling themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it=92s the = same as if a person named Arthur Andersen signed it.=94 I don=92t get the= serpent and fruit part. Must be some Swiss mythology thing. He can be a = bit obscure.=20 P.K. Iggy _How I Like Fixed The Internet_ (Tales from the Great Infodepression of 2009 and the prosperity that followed)