From: W B Hacker <wbh@conducive.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:31:55 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B0EF3CB.4010601@conducive.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0a3d54b81b974e0aa16f202e17b2cd3f@yyc.orthanc.ca>
Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote:
>> linux is actually quite easy and has been for about 12 years or more
>> ... not sure of the others.
>
> I was running diskless Windows in 1995; it wasn't pretty, but it could
> be done. These days you can run XP+ diskless if you have the right
> Windows Server and installation tools fu.
>
>
>
Don't get me started on diode plugboard 'ROM', mercury or nickel-iron delay
lines and 'upgrading' to mag drum memory now...
Time was when a power user's *personal* computer (~US$ 25,000+ in 1968-69
dollars [1]) had the full-house complement of RAM it could hold.
All 8 kilobytes of it.
;-)
.. and we controlled satellites and serious weapons systems with those as well
as digitizing electro cardiograms and such.
More seriously - there's another probable reason Plan9 hasn't found greater take-up.
No need to share when there are enough sheep to go around...
Bill
[1] For which price one could buy anywhere from four to twelve new automobiles
at the time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-26 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <<Pine.BSI.4.64.0911261033570.13404@malasada.lava.net>
2009-11-26 20:36 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-26 20:53 ` ron minnich
2009-11-26 21:04 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2009-11-26 21:31 ` W B Hacker [this message]
2009-11-26 23:33 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-27 5:31 ` W B Hacker
2010-01-13 16:41 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-26 23:28 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-28 13:33 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-11-28 14:28 ` hiro
2009-11-28 15:42 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-11-28 19:17 ` Jorden Mauro
2010-01-05 11:52 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-01-08 14:44 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-08 5:29 ` LiteStar numnums
2010-01-08 15:29 ` hiro
2010-01-08 15:52 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-08 19:36 ` Taj Khattra
2010-01-08 20:03 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-01-08 21:05 ` hiro
2010-01-08 16:08 ` Jorden Mauro
2010-01-08 15:55 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-13 16:36 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-01-05 11:49 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-26 23:11 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-26 23:28 ` matt
[not found] <<4B101734.7060102@maht0x0r.net>
2009-11-27 18:50 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] <<4B0F0F25.7020506@maht0x0r.net>
2009-11-27 2:21 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-27 18:15 ` matt
2009-11-26 20:39 Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-12-09 23:18 ` Tim Newsham
[not found] <<Pine.BSI.4.64.0911261017560.13404@malasada.lava.net>
2009-11-26 20:25 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-26 20:35 ` Tim Newsham
2009-11-26 21:18 ` W B Hacker
2009-11-28 12:51 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-26 0:07 [9fans] Scanners Charles Forsyth
2009-11-26 20:23 ` [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners] Tim Newsham
2009-11-26 20:33 ` Tim Newsham
2009-11-26 23:39 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-27 4:36 ` Tim Newsham
2009-11-27 5:30 ` Enrico Weigelt
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