Re: inferno (was Re: [9fans] fortune-worthy)

[Charles Forsyth <forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk>]

>>thought they had a complete, ready-to-sell system.  As you can see
>>from all the work that Vitanuova have done since, that was not true.

it depends: for what their customers often had in mind to do with it, it was usable.
(what was sometimes done with it wasn't sufficiently inspired, i suppose.)
i have had some experience of VxWorks source
code, and `BSPs' for a few other systems, let alone `embedded' Linux,
and inferno as it was was a good order of magnitude beyond that.  it
had (has) bugs but the space in which they were (are) located was
finite.  `you can always think of something better to do'.
it didn't make much progress because too much time was spent chasing Sun's tales.

fear, uncertainty, doubt: these are the feelings i get when i must wade
through Linux code to find out how some device works.
fear that i'll not remain sane (temper long since lost); uncertainty where to
look next for what i want; doubt that it will be worth finding when i finally locate it.

instead of yet more bloody web browsers, if they've got time why don't people get
a DVD player going (so i needn't boot up windows at all)?  i find films more entertaining than games.
i looked at porting one briefly, but Plan 9 doesn't run unix c programs either.
actually, APE does manage unix programs but this was something else again.