From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 21:41:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e07e75326ce98448ae07150468933eee@caldo.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <oprw7e2gvxrveh1e@smtp.borf.com>
>>The Linux baggage is just the cost of having most hardware supported.
not really: it's fundamentally flawed.
to be fair, i haven't looked at 2.6 yet, though i've got it on DVD (!)
but for the five (different) versions i've got,
even the #include files are barely finite,
you need to wade through chains of #ifn?def to work
out what applies in your case, x86 is deeply embedded(!)
in surprising ways, and all in all it's depressing when it's not awful.
the aim of implementing an operating system
(or graphics subsystem) is to try to help control complexity,
not create it.
The difference between a computer scientist and a hacker is that the
computer scientist knows what an exponential is. -MD McIlroy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-17 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-17 15:20 mirtchov
2003-10-17 16:34 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-10-17 17:08 ` Joel Salomon
2003-10-17 18:55 ` Brantley Coile
2003-10-17 19:05 ` matt
2003-10-17 20:17 ` ron minnich
2003-10-17 20:20 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-10-17 20:26 ` Brantley Coile
2003-10-17 20:41 ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2003-10-17 20:54 ` Brantley Coile
2003-10-20 10:33 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-10-20 16:03 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-10-21 6:07 ` Adrian Tritschler
2003-10-17 22:18 ` ron minnich
2003-10-20 1:38 ` okamoto
2003-10-17 21:36 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2003-10-20 10:33 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-10-21 0:10 ` [9fans] Re: your mail Roman Shaposhnick
2003-10-17 23:38 ` [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9 Geoff Collyer
2003-10-18 1:21 ` bs
2003-10-21 10:14 ` Martin C.Atkins
2003-10-18 8:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-18 8:48 ` Richard Miller
2003-10-18 11:09 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-10-18 13:09 ` Tristan Seligmann
2003-10-19 8:25 ` C H Forsyth
2003-10-20 3:28 ` mirtchov
2003-10-20 7:04 ` Tristan Seligmann
2003-10-20 17:17 ` mirtchov
2003-10-20 10:35 ` Patrick R. Wade
2003-10-21 1:14 ` david parsons
2003-10-19 16:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-20 10:35 ` bs
2003-10-18 19:19 ` Richard Miller
2003-10-19 15:10 ` I RATTAN
2003-10-19 15:54 ` Richard Miller
2003-10-20 14:03 ` ron minnich
2003-10-20 17:03 ` jmk
2003-10-20 21:40 ` splite
2003-10-17 16:43 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-10-17 17:01 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-10-17 20:17 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-10-20 10:33 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-10-17 15:36 steve-simon
2003-10-17 16:05 Richard C Bilson
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