From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] cpu server In-Reply-To: <00c901c3ed2c$4f741f20$8201a8c0@cc77109e> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 08:48:51 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d10cc35c-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Bruce Ellis wrote: > Maybe I'll be the only one to bother arguing with Jim, > but this comment is just a waste of time. > > > A single P9 box is truly brain-dead [1]. > > I usually only run one P9 box, as I'm doing now. > It's far from brain-dead and hasn't crashed yet, ever. > To use it's resources from afar, normally the couch, > I can drawterm or ssh to it from almost anything. I didn't say you couldn't do it, I'm simply saying it brings you -nothing- over -any other OS-. As to your commentary about crashing and stuff, I made no such statement. You are changing the rules of the game right in the middle. Typical. -- -- Open Forge, LLC 24/365 Onsite Support for PCs, Networks, & Game Consoles 512-695-4126 (Austin, Tx.) help@open-forge.com irc.open-forge.com Hangar 18 Open Source Distributed Computing Using Plan 9 & Linux 512-451-7087 http://open-forge.org/hangar18 irc.open-forge.org James Choate 512-451-7087 ravage@ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.com