From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <742e4e8dd10cf799d816faf68f253656@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: "rob pike, esq." To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] supported architectures MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:35:49 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0504c9a4-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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