Re: [9fans] Is fossil/venti file system a good choice for SSD?

[hiro]

If HDDs weren't cheaper i would only use SSDs. and yes, the cheap
consumer stuff, like samsung 850 evo. Price is the only downside IMO.

Re: [9fans] RasPi why?

[hiro]

linux device trees are horror

Re: [9fans] RasPi why?

[hiro]

i cannot run armv5 binaries on armv5. what gives...

Re: [9fans] RasPi why?

[Rui Carmo]

Actually, there has been a trend towards standardising the device tree, and I 
can run ARM5 binaries on an ARMv7 without hassles.

The jump to ARM64 does have some constraints, but I haven’t come across 
anything significant yet (at least on Linux).

And you _will_ have ARM laptops (in volume) very soon — and I’m not talking 
about Chromebooks.

R.

> On 5 Feb 2018, at 09:22, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> About diversity:
> 
> We're not at the size where we would move industry.
> This cost of supporting ARM is higher than it needs to, because every
> new ARM platform and every new SoC using a new ARM platform does
> everything differently, there are no stable standards or
> backwards-compatibility.
> 
> I think there are mips laptops nowadays. Knowing nothing about it yet
> I'd welcome engagement with this over any rpi efforts. At least it
> would improve diversity more than if somebody came and supported the
> future rpi 95.
> 

Re: [9fans] RasPi why?

[hiro]

About diversity:

We're not at the size where we would move industry.
This cost of supporting ARM is higher than it needs to, because every
new ARM platform and every new SoC using a new ARM platform does
everything differently, there are no stable standards or
backwards-compatibility.

I think there are mips laptops nowadays. Knowing nothing about it yet
I'd welcome engagement with this over any rpi efforts. At least it
would improve diversity more than if somebody came and supported the
future rpi 95.

Re: [9fans] Is fossil/venti file system a good choice for SSD?

[hiro]

often the usb3 hdd controllers are horrible, completely forgot about that :)

Re: [9fans] software archaeology

[Steve Simon]

hi,

i have 1st, 2nd, and 3rd ed floppies, a bigger problem will be to find a floppy 
drive... 

i will try and generate some images.

-Steve



> On 5 Feb 2018, at 04:24, Benjamin Huntsman  
> wrote:
> 
> Bizarre and random question, but anyone still have any of the original 3rd 
> Edition floppy images around?
> 
> Also, anyone remember, did the web-based floppy builder from back in the day 
> actually do anything other than tweak the plan9.ini?
> 
> Thanks!
>