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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Porting plan9
Date: Mon,  1 Dec 2014 20:05:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca8116924583005a75347a3bf0e6b189@lilly.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141202040306.Horde.F9NrkN7urXV8lomBO7R6OA1@ssl.eumx.net>

On Mon Dec  1 20:00:59 PST 2014, khm@sciops.net wrote:
> Quoting Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com>:
>
> > Clearly you've never worked on hardware.
>
> No, thank Christ, my conscience is clean.  Instead I work on
> software, and uboot is a fine example of "well it builds on my
> laptop" development paradigms.  Plenty glad I don't have to
> screw with such nonsense any more, and even more glad the company
> I work for has got out of the habit of compensating for bad hw
> designs by spackling things over with "it builds, ship it" code.

while i don't agree that u-boot is nice, i do agree with steve's point,
which i understood to be that hardware is messy, and it's hard to write
software that isn't a tad messy to deal with this.  steve has a lot of experience
with hardware, and knows what he's talking about.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-02  4:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-01  5:14 Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-12-01  5:44 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-01  8:43   ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-12-01 14:13     ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-01 21:54     ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02  0:30       ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-12-02  0:56       ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-02  2:16         ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02  2:23           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-12-02  4:03           ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-02  4:05             ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-12-02  4:19               ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-02  4:23                 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02  2:42       ` Bakul Shah
2014-12-02  3:31         ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02  2:43       ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02  9:32         ` Richard Miller
2014-12-02 10:12           ` Jens Staal
2014-12-02 10:48             ` mischief
2014-12-02 10:54               ` mischief
2014-12-02 14:10           ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02 15:21             ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02 21:57               ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-02 22:02                 ` Iruatã Souza
2014-12-02 22:28                   ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-02 22:55                     ` Iruatã Souza
2014-12-03  0:20                     ` yoann padioleau
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-24  1:17 [9fans] porting plan9 forsyth
2002-01-24 19:13 ` Michael Grunditz
2002-01-24  0:45 jmk
2002-01-23 23:58 Michael Grunditz
2002-01-23 23:06 anothy

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