Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client?

2011-01-29 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
At 4:31 PM -0500 1/28/11, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: The Tegra is probably one of the best ARM chips out there... No it isn't; the Tegra lacks NEON. -- vs 1. I should have said: The Tegra 2 is probably one of the best ARM based SOCs out there ... 2. It lacks NEON because it doesn't need that

[9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client?

2011-01-27 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2011/01/26/compulab-announces-tegra-2-powered-trim-slice/

Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client?

2011-01-27 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
At 12:38 PM -0500 1/27/11, erik quanstrom wrote: On Thu Jan 27 12:37:34 EST 2011, m...@iridescent.org wrote: http://www.semiaccurate.com/2011/01/26/compulab-announces-tegra-2-powered-trim-slice/ nvidia. those are the closed-source everything guys, right? - erik I deleted a line from the post

Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client?

2011-01-27 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
Forgot this Tegra road map link: http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2011/1/23/nvidia-thinks-world-domination-tegra-2-3d-in-january2c-tegra-3-by-fall.aspx -- l...@iridescent.org

Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client?

2011-01-27 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
A few comments. 1. It was a 1 line post to the group. I'm not pushing anything, have no vested interest, I just wanted the list to be aware of it. You don't like Nvida or closed source, that's fine with me. The Tegra is probably one of the best ARM chips out there and certainly the most

Re: [9fans] VMware resolution 1024?

2010-11-10 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
About 1.5 years ago I tried booting plan9 on both VMware Fusion and Parallels. I had used Parallels before for plan9 and knew plan9 had booted in the past. The following is from my imperfect memory and a few notes I have. Both products are pretty good and both booted plan9 for me, but they both

Re: [9fans] how to print a program

2010-09-08 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
At 8:25 AM +0200 9/8/10, Rudolf Sykora wrote: also, just note that cb doesn't always work even for c source: running on /sys/src/cmd/page/gfx.c produces crap... cb has been a looser since I've known it, which is longer than most. It often dumped core, even back in the 70's. It's good in a pinch

Re: [9fans] interesting timing tests

2010-06-21 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
Do you have a way to turn off one of the sockets on c (2 x E5540) and get the numbers with HT (8 processors) and without HT (4 processors)? It would also be interesting to see c with HT turned off. Certainly it seems to me that idlehands needs to be fixed, your bit array active.schedwait is

Re: [9fans] look ma, 16 x86 processors

2010-06-17 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
What dual socket Mobo/chipset is that? I gather you got Hyperthreading to work as their are only 4 x 2 real cores, correct? leb At 8:01 PM -0400 6/17/10, erik quanstrom wrote: trenton# cat /dev/kmesg Plan 9 E820: 0009e800 memory E820: 0010 bf7b memory 126 holes free 00018000

Re: [9fans] 3-button mouse

2010-05-07 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
1. FWIW I think the IBM/Lenovo mouse is still available. Type 31P7405 into Google Search and you get lots of options. Is this really a 3 button mouse or is the scrollpoint the middle button? It really looks like a 2 button mouse from the picture. NB I saw this in a review at the Lenovo web

Re: [9fans] Mac multi-touch mice and p9p acme anyone?

2009-11-26 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
I care. I wanted the same thing. Can you send it to me? I have some friends at Apple that might be able to help. leb At 11:58 PM -0800 11/25/09, Paul Lalonde wrote: I wound up with one of these today, and I just had to mess with it enough to get chording working through the multi-touch

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-14 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
Apple has an interesting process for releasing open source code. One of the guys that works on it wrote something up on it once, but I am sorry I don't have a pointer right now. I would not assume that the it's the same bits that are used inside Apple. Certainly at the very least, many

Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

2009-08-12 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
You really have to ask yourself what are the goals for a new audio system and what use cases do you want to cover. I have some experience in this area, but I'm not a true expert. Here are 5 thoughts to be considered and an anecdote: 1. audio I thought Russ's response was pretty good and about

Re: [9fans] 9base-3

2009-08-11 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
I only want to point out that OS X has had an option for case sensitive versions of the HFS+ file system for some time now. See the Volume Format popup under the Erase tab of the Disk Utility program. I have used it for untaring of linux and plan9 source code. It seems to work and I don't

Re: [9fans] The Olde 2e 'worthies' ... ?

2009-04-27 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
I happen to have the license in front of me, what do you want to know? At 8:28 PM -0700 4/27/09, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: 'kyle000' provokes an interesting question: what is the status of the 2e registered licensees list I fuzzily remember? I used to have the hard copy license from the back of