On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:19:20 -0400I'm still waiting for the Zaurus port somebody did last year or so. ;)
Comeau At9Fans <comeauat9fans@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, so, unless I was asleep at the wheel following these
> discussions, there's been a few "mini PCs" to come about lately:
>
> * Raspberry Pi
> * Cotton Candy
> * Mele A1000
> * MK802
>
> We have a small number of the latter (MK802 running Android 4.0,
> which claims to have a Allwinner ARM A10 1.5Ghz Cortex-A8 processor)
> for sale FWIW. I mention this as LINUX is making its way onto some
> of these devices, er computers, so I expect that Plan 9 has possibilities
> here too.
>
Well, I'm not exactly waiting. He said something about "performance
problems" which I can believe. Use a couple of pipes (foo|bar|baz) in
the Z's native Linux and it about halves the useful performance, so I
can't imagine Plan 9 doing well on it. Inferno would probably do better.