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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:38:37 -0800
From: Geoffrey Avila <avlg@sdsc.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Current status of amd64 port?
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On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, Charles Forsyth wrote:

> > Applications people drive me crazy sometimes. "Don't change anything
> > ... ever .. we want the same constant environment that we've been
> > changing all the time for the last 50 years".
>
> ``there's nothing like a really good candle!''
>
> mind you, if you've seen the `energy efficient' lightbulbs now being foist upon us, ...
>

I do recall, back when we had a Cray T916, there were users (I suspect the
bioinformatics people) who wanted to know when Java2 would be available
for it...

-GBA