From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4B0EF3CB.4010601@conducive.org> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:31:55 +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: <0a3d54b81b974e0aa16f202e17b2cd3f@yyc.orthanc.ca> In-Reply-To: <0a3d54b81b974e0aa16f202e17b2cd3f@yyc.orthanc.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners] Topicbox-Message-UUID: a312e1da-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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.