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From: Chris McGee <sirnewton_01@yahoo.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Questions on the browser as a platform if plan 9 had gained marketshare
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:42:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <765DCBCF-2935-43D1-AEB1-3317406039D9@yahoo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d65a35fd-e8dc-cea8-bc0b-eaeddff632f9@qmul.ac.uk>

I was thinking more along the lines of hardware implementation of 9P minus any OS. For example, a disk serves up a filesystem via 9P or an Ethernet device serving a /net with 9P.

Chris

> On Sep 20, 2016, at 2:16 AM, David Pick <D.M.Pick@qmul.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 19/09/16 21:55, Chris McGee wrote:
>> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>> Maybe 9P could be implemented in a SoC.
> 
> It already has: the Raspberry Pi is built round a SoC...
> ...all that's needed is to boot from SoC ROM instead of the SD card.
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-20 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-19 12:44 Marshall Conover
2016-09-19 17:25 ` Chris McGee
2016-09-19 20:55 ` Chris McGee
2016-09-20  6:16   ` David Pick
2016-09-20 17:42     ` Chris McGee [this message]
2016-09-22 22:49       ` michaelian ennis
2016-09-22 22:53         ` Chris McGee
2016-09-20  7:47   ` hiro
2016-09-20  8:09 ` hiro
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-10-01 20:17 Marshall Conover
2016-10-01 20:21 ` Jules Merit
2016-09-20 16:48 Marshall Conover
2016-09-20 19:46 ` hiro
2016-09-19 22:00 Marshall Conover
2016-09-21  3:11 ` Chris McGee
2016-09-17 15:19 Marshall Conover
2016-09-17 16:23 ` Chris McGee
2016-09-17 17:04 ` hiro
2016-09-17 18:51   ` Jules Merit
2016-09-19 17:11     ` michaelian ennis
2016-10-01 15:03 ` James A. Robinson
2016-10-01 15:05   ` James A. Robinson

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