From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9 From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: <7dcb175c4b441d42d3050f09e0eb74a0@collyer.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 17:27:06 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 72d9d0c2-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>My impression is that Linux has more drivers because it has more i get the impression there are also a good few drivers for old things you wouldn't use anymore, including some for which plan 9 had drivers but which have been declared obsolete and aren't there any more. (i looked at the driver for one device that i knew quite well. it was grim.) plan 9 eliminates whole platforms from time to time.