From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4B0E0F1D.1020006@conducive.org> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:16:13 +0800 From: W B Hacker User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090823 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <13426df10911250853g540e76bk48bd9adfce140808@mail.gmail.com> <509071940911250947m30c2dc6at609fae72b2b68cce@mail.gmail.com> <509071940911251948p3b4bb56apee7670da623fd2ef@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <509071940911251948p3b4bb56apee7670da623fd2ef@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Scanners Topicbox-Message-UUID: a0f88c2e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Anthony Sorace wrote: > erik wrote: > // how to troll like a pro! > > see, i was paying attention! > > bill wrote: > // ...a questionable example... > > if you have a lab of terminals but only one or two have a working > sound card and speakers, it can make good sense. I'm sure it did *at the time*... But have you tried to find even an embedded nano board that has in-bridge-chip audio codec's lately? Where 'lately' is now around ten years-plus? And 'speakers' have becoem tiny, effective - and also very cheap? We've been chopping-off audio jacks on C3 & C7 MB for years to make quite decent low-power 1U servers... too tall for the case otherwise. PITA, that, but we don't use enough of 'em to order them 'unstuffed'. > first time i saw > that was a demo for something unrelated; we were in the real demo > before we'd realized what we'd done to get there. > > ACK .. but time marches on, and there *must* be a few 'shareable' things more current than SB equivalents. How / why not get those examples onto the web page as add-ons if not more germane replacements? DISCLAIMER: My audio gear largely sez 'Marantz' on the front panel, some dates as far back as 1968, only the CD drive is newer than 1975, and CD aside, has SQRT-FA to do with computers. Still sounds sweet though. "Horses for courses" Bill