On Sat Jul 18 19:24:31 EDT 2009, [email protected] wrote: > inferno's got lighter requirements in some ways, but has > the same class of CPU requirements (more or less). if you > have something lighter than that in mind, you might not get > plan 9 but the ideas could still be useful. ask google about > "styx on a brick" for an example of using styx (9p by > another name) on a really small embedded device to > export underlying capabilities.
the big difference is that inferno requires no mmu. these days i think the bright line would be 32-bit cpus. it would be quite difficult to get either one of them working well on a 8- or 16-bit cpu. - erik
