From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d19050508122187cabce@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 05:21:00 +1000 From: Bruce Ellis To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Sleep-complexity In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050508172815.GA29137@augusta.math.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 46a601c0-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Kinda reminds me of RedHat for the Alpha. Everything compiled and was distributed. It's just that a lot of things didn't work because of 64 vs 32 bit not to mention that user address space started at 0x100000000. The worst hit was the networking code. I'm sure things are *better* now - certainly the second release I tried had a different set of non-functioning programs. dhog's plan9 was a better choice. brucee On 5/9/05, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > On Sun May 8 13:29:11 EDT 2005, cross@math.psu.edu wrote: > > On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 12:50:58PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote: > > > > Why 'n' not defined as long? > > > > > > because long and int are the same so it really doesn't matter. > > > > That's not a terribly great assumption to make, is it? > > > > - Dan C. >=20 > It would take a lot of work get get Plan9 to work on a > machine where that isn't the case, and I don't see anyone > jumping up to do it. >