From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <64FCC628-B4A9-4864-B0DF-2C6332446346@orthanc.ca> From: Lyndon Nerenberg To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Subject: Re: [9fans] Consumers? We the eeevil empire are the consumers! Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:34:55 -0800 References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5f682d0c-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 :-(