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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: ASN.1 (Was: [9fans] More 'Sam I am')
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 05:57:39 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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> 
> i'm not going to ask why you're looking for a floppy.
> 
To boot an unconfigured machine?  For NetBSD, I need two.

> i've got gentoo running on a 128M ibm thinkpad 570. i'm sure you
> could get gentoo running on your celery machine or, now here's a thought,
> plan 9. 
> 

Point is, the 2.4GHz clock is a lie.  It is not 300 times faster than
an 8MHz 8088 (only?  I would have thought more) and sometimes it
doesn't feel like it's any faster at all.  And it restricts me in ways
the old PC-Clones never did.  I won't deny one can do lots more today
than in 1983, but it's hardly as much more as Moore's law would
suggest.

> suit yourself.  i'm pretty sure things have gotten better since
> dos TSR programs and sneaker nets. 
> 
No, jmk is right, we're closer to the wheels falling off.  Despite (to
bring the thread in line _and_ hopefully, put it to bed) the likes of
Plan 9 showing how to tighten the bolts.

But, in all truth, I'm not taking an 8088-based laptop to Cape Town
with me :-)

++L