From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Consumers? We the eeevil empire are the consumers!
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:34:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <64FCC628-B4A9-4864-B0DF-2C6332446346@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fd5fcbd00285af213dd77119da84f744@proxima.alt.za>
On 2008-Feb-23, at 22:16 , lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> That ought to be good news and I am pleased to hear it. I presume,
> but I have no experience, that there is already a growing performance
> gap?
Sure. The Apple hardware is leaping behind the latest and greatest of
the Intel/AMD world.
And Plan 9 doesn't need to be there, either.
I have a 1.x G4 GHz Mac Mini that can't realistically keep up with
Leopard (server). But it will make a kick ass Plan 9 CPU server.
My point is that it's easier to fight the static Apple hardware, with
it's absent hardware doc, than to fight the dynamic Intel/AMD
hardware, with its/their also missing doc. At least the obsolete Apple
gear is a non-moving target, so we stand a chance ... The x86 stuff
changes on an hourly basis, and cannot be kept up with :-(
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-24 6:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-24 2:19 [9fans] Intel ICH7 AHCI cinap_lenrek
2008-02-24 2:58 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-24 4:22 ` cinap_lenrek
2008-02-24 4:29 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-24 5:31 ` ron minnich
2008-02-24 5:41 ` lucio
2008-02-24 6:05 ` [9fans] Consumers? We the eeevil empire are the consumers! Lyndon Nerenberg
2008-02-24 6:16 ` lucio
2008-02-24 6:34 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2008-02-24 6:54 ` lucio
2008-02-24 12:52 ` david jeannot
2008-02-24 16:48 ` lucio
2008-02-24 16:56 ` lucio
2008-02-24 21:31 ` Dave Eckhardt
2008-02-24 15:09 ` [9fans] Intel ICH7 AHCI erik quanstrom
2008-02-24 21:36 ` cinap_lenrek
2008-02-24 21:57 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-24 23:03 ` cinap_lenrek
2008-02-24 18:46 [9fans] Consumers? We the eeevil empire are the consumers! john
2008-04-23 9:08 ` eekee57
2008-04-23 14:22 ` John Waters
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