Re: [9fans] latest minicluster: ARM fun

2010-12-01 Thread Lucio De Re
> The good news from Ron's photos is it seems they do make 'em like they used > to, > abet a little smaller. And the biblical number seven is also back, although not in the "seventy times seven" form yet :-) ++L

Re: [9fans] ansi escape codes and p9p 9term

2010-12-01 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:49 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Wed Dec  1 09:42:55 EST 2010, fernanbola...@mailc.net wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I like being able to cut and paste on the terminal, but occasionally i >> still drop to xterm to make ansi escape from scrambling the screen. In >> a real plan9

Re: [9fans] latest minicluster: ARM fun

2010-12-01 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
good to know; for some reason I thought you were getting early engineering samples. -Skip On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:39 AM, ron minnich wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Skip Tavakkolian > wrote: >> Very cool!  more lights than the WOPR and slightly less than the >> Connection Machine :)

Re: [9fans] latest minicluster: ARM fun

2010-12-01 Thread Steve Simon
> Very cool! more lights than the WOPR and slightly less than the > Connection Machine :) I have never forgotten the day I asked about changing the baud rate on a serial line on my colleges Honeywell level 66 mainframe. They took me into the machine room and opened one of the cupboards to show m

Re: [9fans] latest minicluster: ARM fun

2010-12-01 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > Very cool!  more lights than the WOPR and slightly less than the > Connection Machine :) > > The Stagecoach board seems to be available on gumstix site. Anyone order it > yet? we ordered them :-) ron

Re: [9fans] latest minicluster: ARM fun

2010-12-01 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
Very cool! more lights than the WOPR and slightly less than the Connection Machine :) The Stagecoach board seems to be available on gumstix site. Anyone order it yet? -Skip On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:56 AM, ron minnich wrote: > Here is our latest minicluster design. > > We used the gumstix stag

Re: [9fans] Building Inferno on Mac OS X

2010-12-01 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Martin Kühl wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 17:24, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: >>> OBJTYPE=386                     # target system object type (eg, 386, arm, >>> mips, power, >>> s800, sparc) >>> OBJTYPE=$objty

Re: [9fans] Building Inferno on Mac OS X

2010-12-01 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Martin Kühl wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 17:24, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: >> OBJTYPE=386                     # target system object type (eg, 386, arm, >> mips, power, >> s800, sparc) >> OBJTYPE=$objtype > > With these lines you correctly set OBJTYPE to 386, then

Re: [9fans] Building Inferno on Mac OS X

2010-12-01 Thread Martin Kühl
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 17:24, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: > OBJTYPE=386                     # target system object type (eg, 386, arm, > mips, power, > s800, sparc) > OBJTYPE=$objtype With these lines you correctly set OBJTYPE to 386, then immediately reset it to $objtype, which is empty. Comment out

Re: [9fans] Building Inferno on Mac OS X

2010-12-01 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: > Hi, I seem to have some problems while trying to build hosted Inferno > on Mac OS X. > The mail client inserted additional newlines. A `better' build log is here: http://pastebin.com/JXFgzimW Thanks, -- Aram Hăvărneanu

[9fans] Building Inferno on Mac OS X

2010-12-01 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
Hi, I seem to have some problems while trying to build hosted Inferno on Mac OS X. Orion% Orion% uname -a Darwin Orion.local 10.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.5.0: Fri Nov 5 23:20:39 PDT 2010; root:xnu-1504.9.17~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 Orion% Orion% pwd /Users/aram/inferno Orion% Orion% cat mkconfig #

Re: [9fans] ansi escape codes and p9p 9term

2010-12-01 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Dec 1 09:42:55 EST 2010, fernanbola...@mailc.net wrote: > Hi all > > I like being able to cut and paste on the terminal, but occasionally i > still drop to xterm to make ansi escape from scrambling the screen. In > a real plan9 i can use vt, for p9p however what do you guys do? i have a h

[9fans] ansi escape codes and p9p 9term

2010-12-01 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all I like being able to cut and paste on the terminal, but occasionally i still drop to xterm to make ansi escape from scrambling the screen. In a real plan9 i can use vt, for p9p however what do you guys do? regards fernan

Re: [9fans] latest minicluster: ARM fun

2010-12-01 Thread Richard Miller
Very nice, and very reminiscent of the "processor farms" we used to build out of gumstix-sized transputer TRAM modules in the late '80s. Of course you'd need a whole boxful of 20Mhz transputers to compete with a single 600Mhz omap, but the transputer did make it surprisingly easy to get linear spe

Re: [9fans] latest minicluster: ARM fun

2010-12-01 Thread Mathieu Lonjaret
And it even makes a very decent christmas tree, with all the pretty lights! ;) On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, ron minnich wrote: > Here is our latest minicluster design. > > We used the gumstix stagecoach. > > It's nice, 196 Ovaros in a box. We had a number of failed attempts on > an enclosure