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From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 12:55:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFSF3XOzYKeh9p1t+CN8cv0N-mFAwR+pJUc=PYfp5O-TpWQ3+A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60b0bdc8-8d10-42c6-96f1-ee498f8ccfb0@www.fastmail.com>

what makes it enjoyable hardware? when is it classic? anything that's
older than 10y or what?

it's surely fun to install plan9 on a hundred random computers and get
lucky and have everything work. but that's just not been my
experience.

so instead i learned to be a little bit picky about the hardware
avoiding having to write drivers for everything that doesn't work.

just curious what kind of "classic" you're going for, i wasn't trying
to chastise you. IDE isn't *that* old either. we have other people
playing with pdp emulators.

in my experience with those expensive energy prices where i live the
only thing expensive would be if you keep a lot of PCs running at the
same time 24/7.

On 12/31/21, vic.thacker@fastmail.fm <vic.thacker@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, at 03:01, hiro wrote:
>> let's not pretend there's something great that you would miss out on
>> without the combination of IDE hardware and the half-assed support for
>> it in 4th edition.
>>
>> i don't know what aspect exactly of "classic" computing motivates you
>> to recommend this struggle, vick.
> 
> With 9front cancel culture/tribalism aside, I find making "classic" Plan 9
> work on hardware to be enjoyable.  It is an inexpensive hobby and the sense
> of discovery is still there.  I never thought that I'd have to justify my
> use of Plan 9 on 9fans.
> 
> Happy New Year!
> 
> Vester "Vic" Thacker

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2021-12-28 15:32 Duke Normandin
2021-12-28 15:50 ` hiro
2021-12-28 15:57   ` Duke Normandin
2021-12-28 16:01     ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2021-12-28 16:09       ` Duke Normandin
2021-12-28 16:24         ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2021-12-28 16:28       ` Duke Normandin
2021-12-28 16:31         ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2021-12-28 16:41           ` Duke Normandin
2021-12-28 16:48             ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2021-12-28 16:55               ` Duke Normandin
2021-12-28 16:58                 ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2021-12-28 16:59                 ` hiro
2021-12-28 17:06                   ` Duke Normandin
2021-12-28 17:20                     ` hiro
2021-12-28 17:28                       ` Eli Cohen
2021-12-28 17:35                         ` Duke Normandin
2021-12-28 17:56                           ` Frank D. Engel, Jr.
2021-12-28 18:03                             ` Duke Normandin
2021-12-28 18:11                               ` Eli Cohen
2021-12-28 18:22                                 ` Duke Normandin
2021-12-28 18:16                               ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2021-12-28 18:35                               ` vic.thacker
2021-12-28 18:45                                 ` Duke Normandin
2021-12-28 19:01                                   ` hiro
2021-12-28 19:21                                     ` Duke Normandin
2021-12-28 20:12                                       ` hiro
2021-12-28 20:26                                         ` Duke Normandin
2021-12-28 20:33                                           ` hiro
2021-12-28 20:32                                         ` Duke Normandin
2021-12-28 20:35                                           ` hiro
2021-12-28 18:44                               ` ori
2021-12-28 23:16                           ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-28 23:25                             ` Duke Normandin
2021-12-29  0:20                               ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2021-12-29  3:30                                 ` Duke Normandin
2021-12-29  3:44                                 ` Humm
2021-12-29  3:53                                   ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2021-12-29  5:10                                     ` Humm
2021-12-29  6:48                                     ` kvik
2021-12-29  3:55                                   ` ori
2021-12-30 20:37                                 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-12-28 17:23                     ` ori
2021-12-28 17:29                       ` Duke Normandin
2021-12-28 22:42                         ` Humm
2021-12-28 23:29                           ` Stanley Lieber
2021-12-29  2:34                             ` vic.thacker
2021-12-29  2:46                               ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-12-30 16:15                               ` Glenn Holmer via 9fans
2021-12-30 18:01                                 ` hiro
2021-12-30 18:25                                   ` Steve Simon
2021-12-30 18:28                                     ` hiro
2021-12-30 19:24                                     ` Glenn Holmer via 9fans
2021-12-31 11:45                                   ` vic.thacker
2021-12-31 11:55                                     ` hiro [this message]
2021-12-31 12:42                                       ` Lucio De Re
2022-01-01  3:00                                         ` vic.thacker
2022-01-01 18:21                                           ` Stuart Morrow
2021-12-31 14:09                                       ` vic.thacker
2021-12-31 14:27                                         ` hiro
2021-12-28 16:50             ` ori
2021-12-28 16:55               ` hiro
2021-12-28 15:54 ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2021-12-28 16:08   ` Duke Normandin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-12-28  1:03 Duke
2021-12-28  1:07 ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2021-12-28  3:40   ` Duke
2021-12-28 13:54   ` vic.thacker
2021-12-28 15:28     ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2021-12-28 13:06 ` vic.thacker
2021-12-28 13:58 ` hiro

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