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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