From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: ASN.1 (Was: [9fans] More 'Sam I am')
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:46:52 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <775b8d190602112146s50dd734fye993ca0495842d76@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7d2b1c5a683c1c442c3f97c38ca9a2a@proxima.alt.za>
a 600MHz P3 is adequate (my old single brain-dead config as
mr chaote called it). my 3GHz cpu server is blindingly fast.
for a terminal a P1 is fine.
brucee
On 2/12/06, lucio@proxima.alt.za <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
> >
> > i'm not going to ask why you're looking for a floppy.
> >
> To boot an unconfigured machine? For NetBSD, I need two.
>
> > i've got gentoo running on a 128M ibm thinkpad 570. i'm sure you
> > could get gentoo running on your celery machine or, now here's a thought,
> > plan 9.
> >
>
> Point is, the 2.4GHz clock is a lie. It is not 300 times faster than
> an 8MHz 8088 (only? I would have thought more) and sometimes it
> doesn't feel like it's any faster at all. And it restricts me in ways
> the old PC-Clones never did. I won't deny one can do lots more today
> than in 1983, but it's hardly as much more as Moore's law would
> suggest.
>
> > suit yourself. i'm pretty sure things have gotten better since
> > dos TSR programs and sneaker nets.
> >
> No, jmk is right, we're closer to the wheels falling off. Despite (to
> bring the thread in line _and_ hopefully, put it to bed) the likes of
> Plan 9 showing how to tighten the bolts.
>
> But, in all truth, I'm not taking an 8088-based laptop to Cape Town
> with me :-)
>
> ++L
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-12 5:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-11 20:10 quanstro
2006-02-12 3:11 ` Jack Johnson
2006-02-12 3:16 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-12 3:57 ` lucio
2006-02-12 5:46 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-11 16:18 quanstro
2006-02-11 19:41 ` lucio
2006-02-11 20:47 ` Richard Miller
2006-02-11 14:38 quanstro
2006-02-11 15:52 ` lucio
2006-02-11 22:17 ` Christopher Nielsen
2006-02-11 22:24 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-11 22:26 ` Christopher Nielsen
2006-02-11 22:34 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-11 23:38 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-11 22:47 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-11 14:37 quanstro
2006-02-11 0:10 [9fans] More 'Sam I am' quanstro
2006-02-11 6:04 ` ASN.1 (Was: [9fans] More 'Sam I am') lucio
2006-02-11 6:54 ` geoff
2006-02-11 8:06 ` lucio
2006-02-11 8:44 ` geoff
2006-02-11 12:10 ` lucio
2006-02-11 8:55 ` Steve Simon
2006-02-11 9:16 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-11 7:04 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-11 7:09 ` geoff
2006-02-11 7:53 ` lucio
2006-02-11 7:53 ` Skip Tavakkolian
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