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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
>
>


  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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