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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:46:52 +1100
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')
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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 though=
t,
> > 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
>
>