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: <00e701c3ed8e$01748be0$8201a8c0@cc77109e> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 10:05:54 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d124eb1c-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Bruce Ellis wrote: > you said brain-dead. > > > I didn't say you couldn't do it, I'm simply saying it brings you -nothing- > > over -any other OS-. That is correct Bruce. A single P9 box is brain dead, it is unable to demonstrate -any- of its advantages over a traditional OS. -The- point of using a OS is that it brings you something that others can't. Otherwise it's not a matter of technical supperiority but 'taste'. And for that there is no accounting. -- -- 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