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Date: Tue,  8 Mar 2005 07:18:50 -0700
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Native vs Emulated
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On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Martin C.Atkins wrote:

> On the other hand, I think this underestimates the advantages of never
> having to partition a disk again, getting access to other systems
> without having to dedicate a physical machine to them, and being able to
> minimise the hardware that one has to administer (not to mention, buy!).

And, there is the little matter of, e.g., running on a T41 with the
Atheros chipset, which only ships with binary drivers.

ron