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From: Nick LaForge <nicklaforge@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Preferred ARM platform?
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>> As far as I know, there isn't yet a good, inexpensive, well-documented
>> ARM system.

> pick any two!  ;-)

"Between two evils, choose neither, between two goods, choose both."
-- Tryon Edwards

A nice quote from a nice book on distributed systems [*]  Need I quote
another distributed systems expert, Jim Choate?  The choice only comes
up if you feel the need to build a PC out of a bunch of Plan9s instead
of a Plan9 out of a bunch of PCs.  Do we really need the thing to do
video?  Although it would be nice.

I punted on this anyway by buying a Startech usb2 vga device.  Now
"all" I need is dma with a decent usb pipe, and a port of the linux
driver.

[*] Garg, V.  "Elements of Distributed Computing"

Nick