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From: "Brian L. Stuart" <blstuart@bellsouth.net>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] inferno
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 18:23:57 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <141546915.7127856.1596219837525@mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <964fa1d6-e1a3-4bff-84d7-55afb770b69c@www.fastmail.com>

On Friday, July 31, 2020, 6:02:11 AM EDT, Ethan Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote: 
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020, at 8:06 AM, thinktankworkspaces@gmail.com wrote:
> > I heard mention of inferno in a few posts. Does anyone here still use 
> > that? If so why? I'm interested in seeing what it looks like dare i say 
> > on top of 9front?

I still use it primarily for teaching purposes.  It's the OS that
we study the internals of in the OS courses I teach.

> i stopped trying to use it when i switched to amd64 9front.
> at the time, it couldn't run on it. i don't know if it's been fixed.

 That is currently being worked on. More and more environments
are starting to say "thou shalt not 32-bit" so there's not much
choice.

BLS


      reply	other threads:[~2020-07-31 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-31  7:06 inferno thinktankworkspaces
2020-07-31  7:26 ` [9front] inferno sirjofri+ml-9front
2020-07-31 10:01   ` hiro
2020-07-31  9:59 ` Ethan Gardener
2020-07-31 18:23   ` Brian L. Stuart [this message]

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