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Subject: [9fans] Re: only old hardware supported?
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
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Date: Fri,  2 Aug 2002 09:51:36 -0400
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> How do other OSs (e.g. the various BSDs) overcome this problem? Do they
> build their own drivers? How diffcult is this on Plan9?

The various BSDs all run XFree86.  XFree86 overcomes this
problem by having orders of magnitude more driver writers
than Plan 9 does.

Russ