From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:30:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ab217670907081330t3a0bbc37i9f2e8f3698802de6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <621112A569DAE948AD25CCDCF1C075331AB56A@dolly.ntdom.cupdx>
2009/7/8 Benjamin Huntsman <BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu>:
>>> Without this getting into a holy war, what Geoff told me was that the
>>> amd64 work was for headless CPU servers, which is only mildly useful
>>> to me anyway.
>>
>>If it was released perhaps somebody would add the missing drivers, who knows...
>>
>>As things stand, we will never know.
>
> Speaking of the amd64 port, I had thought that Bell Labs was planning on releasing it at some point in the future, but that it currently wasn't quite perfect and they didn't want to have to field complaints... I can't say that I blame them...
My understanding from Geoff was exactly this. But I don't want to
speak for him or introduce this as fact. I'm unaware of the exact
status at this particular time.
> But, it would be nice to see eventually. Are there plans to let the amd64 port out of the labs at some point in the future?
Agreed.
> Many thanks!
>
> -Ben
Before my signature, I'd really like to reiterate that I did not bring
up amd64 to open a can of worms.
-dho
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-08 7:48 Aharon Robbins
2009-07-08 8:48 ` tlaronde
2009-07-08 9:02 ` Richard Miller
2009-07-08 9:23 ` tlaronde
2009-07-08 9:41 ` Richard Miller
2009-07-08 10:33 ` Uriel
2009-07-08 12:39 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 9:28 ` Anselm R Garbe
2009-07-08 10:22 ` Uriel
2009-07-08 10:40 ` Richard Miller
2009-07-08 11:05 ` Uriel
2009-07-08 11:34 ` Anselm R Garbe
2009-07-08 12:07 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 15:07 ` David Leimbach
2009-07-08 16:15 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-07-08 16:27 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 16:56 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-08 19:34 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 19:41 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-08 19:47 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 19:56 ` Uriel
2009-07-08 20:44 ` Noah Evans
2009-07-08 21:14 ` Dan Cross
2009-07-08 21:23 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-08 19:50 ` Uriel
2009-07-08 19:56 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-08 20:04 ` Uriel
2009-07-08 20:10 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-08 20:19 ` ron minnich
2009-07-08 20:25 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2009-07-08 20:30 ` Devon H. O'Dell [this message]
2009-07-08 20:44 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2009-07-08 20:32 ` John Floren
2009-07-08 22:21 ` Jason Catena
2009-07-08 22:41 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2009-07-09 4:10 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-09 5:43 ` Jason Catena
2009-07-09 17:48 ` Micah Stetson
2009-07-09 17:50 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-09 17:50 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-09 19:47 ` Jason Catena
2009-07-09 20:29 ` tlaronde
2009-07-09 20:58 ` Jason Catena
2009-07-09 21:34 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-09 21:44 ` Jack Johnson
2009-07-10 4:21 ` Bakul Shah
2009-07-09 21:59 ` Jason Catena
2009-07-09 22:18 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-10 6:32 ` tlaronde
2009-07-09 12:45 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-09 15:24 ` David Leimbach
2009-07-08 20:11 ` ron minnich
2009-07-08 20:43 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-08 20:59 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-08 21:04 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-08 17:34 ` Dan Cross
2009-07-08 17:52 ` ron minnich
2009-07-08 19:30 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 19:40 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-08 20:09 ` ron minnich
2009-07-08 16:12 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-07-08 9:04 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-07-10 6:32 Akshat Kumar
2009-07-10 12:02 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-07-10 12:14 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-10 12:52 ` Robert Raschke
2009-07-10 17:11 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-10 19:54 ` Richard Miller
2009-07-10 19:14 ` Bakul Shah
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