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From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Consumers? We the eeevil empire are the consumers!
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:16:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fd5fcbd00285af213dd77119da84f744@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4419ADCC-B808-45AE-8AC3-69C06C98779A@orthanc.ca>

> There is a lot of PPC-based Apple gear coming on the used equipment
> market. Considering the tight control Apple placed on the hardware,
> porting the MD kernel bits has many fewer moving targets. And the lack
> of hardware documentation sucks equally between the two platforms.

That ought to be good news and I am pleased to hear it.  I presume,
but I have no experience, that there is already a growing performance
gap?  Yet you'd think something like Plan 9 would bridge that gap by
making more efficient use of the hardware (less cpu-devouring
eye-candy) and therefore would attract at least some developers.

The ways of this grave new world are so very mysterious...

++L


  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-24  6:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-24  2:19 [9fans] Intel ICH7 AHCI cinap_lenrek
2008-02-24  2:58 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-24  4:22   ` cinap_lenrek
2008-02-24  4:29     ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-24  5:31       ` ron minnich
2008-02-24  5:41         ` lucio
2008-02-24  6:05           ` [9fans] Consumers? We the eeevil empire are the consumers! Lyndon Nerenberg
2008-02-24  6:16             ` lucio [this message]
2008-02-24  6:34               ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2008-02-24  6:54                 ` lucio
2008-02-24 12:52                   ` david jeannot
2008-02-24 16:48                     ` lucio
2008-02-24 16:56                       ` lucio
2008-02-24 21:31             ` Dave Eckhardt
2008-02-24 15:09         ` [9fans] Intel ICH7 AHCI erik quanstrom
2008-02-24 21:36       ` cinap_lenrek
2008-02-24 21:57         ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-24 23:03           ` cinap_lenrek
2008-02-24 18:46 [9fans] Consumers? We the eeevil empire are the consumers! john
2008-04-23  9:08 ` eekee57
2008-04-23 14:22   ` John Waters

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