From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: 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 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: <4419ADCC-B808-45AE-8AC3-69C06C98779A@orthanc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5f5eb70e-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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