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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] the old floppy set
Date: Sat,  8 Aug 2009 14:23:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a74f49e2f49db5e0efcbf7c11dcec704@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <509071940908081011m72370cf3q9c311b8dbb1be226@mail.gmail.com>

> i was going to say that having Plan 9 ported to your platform seemed
> like a bad omen for your company, but equally valid is the observation
> that being a platform vender (other than Apple) is bad for your
> company.

ibm seems to be doing ok.  but sequent, the original
home of ken's fs kernels, is not, having been
swallowed by the aforementioned ibm.

another platform vendor to fail recently which has
been mentioned here is sicortex, the guys who made
the low-power supercomputers.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-08 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-07  4:55 John Floren
2009-08-07  5:04 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-08-07  5:12   ` John Floren
2009-08-07 18:47     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2009-08-07 19:49       ` Anthony Sorace
2009-08-07  9:15   ` Steve Simon
2009-08-07 10:11     ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-07 11:06     ` Uriel
2009-08-07 14:46       ` Benjamin Huntsman
2009-08-08  4:36     ` lucio
2009-08-08  4:49     ` John Floren
2009-08-08 14:48       ` Anthony Sorace
2009-08-08 15:45         ` ron minnich
2009-08-08 17:11           ` Anthony Sorace
2009-08-08 18:23             ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-08-08 18:53             ` Benjamin Huntsman
2009-08-09  2:31             ` Tim Newsham
2009-08-08 17:05       ` Uriel
2009-08-13 14:11       ` michael block
2009-08-13 14:23         ` John Floren
2009-08-13 14:26           ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-13 15:11           ` michael block
2009-08-13 15:27             ` erik quanstrom

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