From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:47:39 -0800
From: "John Barham" <jbarham@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] The $200 walmart "gPC"
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> Seems like a nice fast little machine for Plan 9.

Dirt cheap too.  Even w/ Fry's specials it would be hard to put
together a comparable machine for that amount.

Given that it has VIA's C7 chip which has extra instructions for
crypto, including SHA1
(http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/padlock/), it should make a nice
venti server--although you would probably need to upgrade the 80 GB
drive...  What would be involved in patching Plan 9's libsec to use
the C7's crypto instructions?

  John