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From: Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 17:55:37 -0500
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] PDP11 (Was: Re: what heavy negativity!)
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Posted August 15th, 2013: https://9p.io/sources/contrib/stallion/src/sdmpt2.c
Corresponding announcement:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.plan9/134-YyYnfbQ
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 5:31 PM Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 04:54:22PM -0500, Steven Stallion wrote:
> > As the guy
>
> might be worth keeping in mind the current most common use case for nvme
> is laptop storage and not building jet engines in coraid's basement
>
> so the nvme driver that cinap wrote works on my thinkpad today and is
> about infinity times faster than the one you guys locked up in the
> warehouse at the end of raiders of the lost ark, because my laptop can't
> seem to boot off nostalgia.
>
> so no, nobody gets an award for writing a driver.  but cinap won the
> 9front Order of Valorous Service (with bronze oak leaf cluster,
> signifying working code) for *releasing* one.  I was there when field
> marshal aiju presented the award; it was a very nice ceremony.
>
> anyway, someone once said communication is not a zero-sum game.  the
> hyperspecific use case you describe is fine but there are other reasons
> to care about how well this stuff works, you know?
>
> khm
>