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From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] supported architectures
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:35:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <742e4e8dd10cf799d816faf68f253656@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)

> the pc is the main target simply because it is fairly cheap,
> powerful, and readily available.

Earlier versions of the distribution booted on multiple
platforms, but today the PC is so dominant in the marketplace
and the construction of a bootable distribution so difficult
that we only package the distribution for installation on
one architecture.  Once you've got a PC running, it's much
easier to get another system to boot.  A number of people
have ipaqs running Plan 9, for example; that's a StrongARM
system.  All the necessary code is part of the distribution.

-rob


             reply	other threads:[~2002-10-14 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-14 12:35 rob pike, esq. [this message]
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2002-10-14  9:47 C H Forsyth
2002-10-14  9:18 emanuel stiebler

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