From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:41:20 -0500 Message-ID: From: Strake To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] AMD64 system Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7ff0ef92-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 25/04/2012, John Floren wrote: > I thought you wanted this to do your uber computations, not watch movies? No, I want this to do both! Likely not simultaneously. > And if you have full-screen 3D games for Plan 9, share! When I do, I shall. > You still haven't told us your usage case. Wild speculation about what > is possible, impossible, desirable, necessary, etc. is cheap on 9fans, > I'm sure you've seen that. Ah, the specifics, then: * Browse the Web * Read and write e-mail * Write and build programs and libraries, mostly in C and Haskell: Haskell compiler, VCS, various little utilites * Build various other programs: kernels, compilers, Web browsers, e-mail clients, window systems, others * Encrypt and decrypt data: PGP, SSH, TLS * Do symbolic computations: solve equations and such * Do numeric computations: now light; potentially very heavy in near future, e.g. computational fluid dynamics * Potentially CAD: mechanical, if I ever find or write CADware not grievous to use; and possibly electrical * Play music * Watch movies * Play games: mostly first-person shooters, flight simulators, arcade games * Typeset documents, mostly with LaTeX I know that much that I wish to do is not yet feasible on stock P9, but I hope to either do it myself or procrastinate until someone else does (^_^) Cheers, strake