Re: [9fans] Why does Plan 9 use “snarf” instead of “copy”?

Hi Mateusz, as far as I remember, it was originally called "xerox". But that is trademarked. No idea where the word "snarf" comes from. Cheers, Robby On 12 Sep 2016 12:19, "Mateusz Piotrowski" wrote: Hello, I've discovered Plan 9 recently and became curious about some design

Re: [9fans] small VFD display

Typo of the name Dijkstra :-( http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD898.html On Jun 9, 2015 11:12 AM, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: -- Dijstraka, EWD898, 1984 Huh?! Lucio

Re: [9fans] The Third Button

In acme, button-3 can cancel a button-2 execute. Say you button-2-sweep a command, but then decide, err, no, don't want to do that, you chord-click button-3 to cancel the execution. Not sure about other ways of doing this. Robby On 21 July 2014 14:08, dante subscripti...@posteo.eu wrote:

Re: [9fans] long paths in acme tags

Whenever they are available, I use symlinks for shortening paths for Acme. This is so far the only good use I've found for them ;-) Robby On Jun 11, 2014 8:54 PM, Bakul Shah ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: If you are editing multiple file within the same directory with a very long path, the long

Re: [9fans] Acme: spaces in file names

Someone once made a little filesystem that would substitute spaces in filenames with a different character. When placed between the normal fs and Acme, this would make things work quite nicely. If I remember correctly, Acme-SAC (built on top of Inferno) does that by default. No idea where you

Re: [9fans] acme label lengths in tags

On Plan 9 use bind to create yourself a nice hierarchy. Like 'bind -a /Users/jimr /me' or similar. Not sure how easy that is under *nix with p9p, haven't tried that yet. And your /Users makes me think you're on Mac. Robby On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:04 PM, James A. Robinson

Re: [9fans] Logitech T400 mouse with Plan9 and Plan9port Acme

I've been using one of these: Lenovo 3 button scrollpoint USB mouse http://shop.lenovo.com/us/itemdetails/31P7405/460/0E80436C80A748E6AA76791FC42C9CA3 It has been very reliable and comfortable to use. Robby On Feb 25, 2013 7:19 PM, Ruslan Khusnullin ruslan.khusnul...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon,

Re: [9fans] c++

The only C++ book that I ever found to be worth it, is Ruminations on C++ by Andrew Koenig. Robby On Nov 19, 2012 10:01 AM, Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: I need to learn c++ for work - people have strong opinions on languages I know, and not everyone likes c++ but its a requirment for

Re: [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop

A well working browser is an OS these days. A bit of a dilemma that. ;-) On Oct 18, 2012 3:25 PM, Pavel Klinkovsky pavel.klinkov...@gmail.com wrote: Dne čtvrtek, 18. října 2012 14:23:03 UTC+2 Oleksandr Iakovliev napsal(a): 1) Lack of modern GUI and GUI development kit ...

Re: [9fans] drawterm on the nokia n900

I just retired my N900 as phone. So reviving it as drawterm would be cool. But I've no idea when I could find some time to start playing. Robby On Jun 21, 2012 6:29 PM, Nicolas Bercher nberc...@yahoo.fr wrote: Le 18/06/2012 14:21, hiro a écrit : Just to give someone who searches for some

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

Wrong Athens, methinks. On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net wrote: Greetings. On Wed, 16 May 2012 15:04:45 +0200 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: On Tue May 15 21:44:21 EDT 2012, cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote: there might be more plan9 users than you

Re: [9fans] SIP

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Tristan Plumb 9p...@imu.li wrote: Anyone working on or have a simple SIP router/proxy for Plan9? As of today I will no longer waste days of my life dealing with the abomination that is Asterisk. I would also love to see a SIP implementation for Plan 9,

Re: [9fans] Scripting acme

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Mauricio CA mauricio.antu...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, all, Could you give me tips on how to script acme in plan9 from user space? Sorry for asking this question without at least showing some attempts of my own, but the fact is that I'm unable to grasp how to

Re: [9fans] `mk` (from Plan9 ports) efficiency related issue

Terribly sorry, my email won't help you much, apart from going Wow, a 4000 link mk file! and Hmm, I wouldn't start from here if you want to go there. Your email also doesn't explain why you cannot generate a normal mk file. If you want to stick with your approach, it almost looks like you may be

Re: [9fans] `mk` (from Plan9 ports) efficiency related issue

Err, Wow, a 4000 line mk file! On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Robert Raschke rtrli...@googlemail.comwrote: Terribly sorry, my email won't help you much, apart from going Wow, a 4000 link mk file! and Hmm, I wouldn't start from here if you want to go there. Your email also doesn't explain

Re: [9fans] `mk` (from Plan9 ports) efficiency related issue

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 17:00, Robert Raschke rtrli...@googlemail.com wrote: Your email also doesn't explain why you cannot generate a normal mk file. I'm afraid I don't understand the question

Re: [9fans] So, why Plan 9?

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Mark Carter alt.mcar...@gmail.com wrote: I was reading the suckless.org website the other day, and they seemed quite keen on Plan 9. I am running Linux. Is there a useful summary document that explains where plan9port fits in with Glendix, and why anyone

Re: [9fans] So, why Plan 9?

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Robert Raschke rtrli...@googlemail.comwrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Mark Carter alt.mcar...@gmail.comwrote: I was reading the suckless.org website the other day, and they seemed quite keen on Plan 9. I am running Linux. Is there a useful summary

Re: [9fans] how to lock cpu console

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:20 PM, bau...@gmail.com wrote: how to lock (protect by password) the cpu console? In default install afterboot the console is logged by user bootes. Is there a way to avoid this? Usually, you'll find people put it in a cupboard or room that you can

Re: [9fans] Acme-sac integration with Windows NT

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:41 AM, 6o205z...@sneakemail.com wrote: How do you folks using acme-sac on Windows deal with the line-ending issue? I've been using P9P acme on linux (at work) since Russ announced it, but I consider the line-ending issue a show-stopper on Windows. While the cr

Re: [9fans] du and find

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis eeke...@fastmail.fmwrote: On 3 May 2010, at 19:34, Jorden M wrote: I've yet to find out why this happens so much, but I think I can narrow it to a combination of ignorance, laziness, and perhaps that all-too-frequent assumption `oh, I can

Re: [9fans] three sets of windows

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:35 AM, tammy turner tam...@windstream.net wrote: Hi I recently downloaded plan 9 (last thursday) and when I attempted install I had 3 sets of windows side by side and could not read the set up instructions (questions) attempting to scroll left or right would not

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:15 PM, maht maht-9f...@maht0x0r.net wrote: On 25/03/2010 17:11, Corey Thomasson wrote: Not really related, but I got a good laugh from this. As soon as I opened this email in gmail, the targeted ad changed to Editing xml is difficult. well that is true, the

Re: [9fans] Shall we fix the use of Up/Dn arrows?

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.comwrote: Not sure how the concept of a line delimited by newlines relates to moving the cursor up one physical line on the screen. Working out where to move the cursor to Still I dare claim that moving a cursor up one

Re: [9fans] find command reloaded

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I've been wondering. The plan9 'replacement' for the (linux/unix-like) find command, according to the faq, is, in a way, grep foo `{du -a . | awk '{print $2}'} Now I want to find all files containing foo.

Re: [9fans] Just one piece o' help.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:02 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: naturally, bitmaps are hard to read. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ASCII_art_conversion_tool (Something along those lines at least.) Robby

Re: [9fans] secstore account expired, how fix it using only drawterm

Thank you Erik. On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:09 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@coraid.com wrote: cpu% auth/secstore -g factotum secstore password: auth/secstore: error: account rtr expired at Sat Jan 2 03:59:59 GMT 2010 secstore password: see secstore(8). auth/secuser $user is what you

Re: [9fans] What do you use plan 9 for?

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:49 AM, chutsu chu...@gmail.com wrote: So.. been looking at plan 9, am confused what plan 9 is used for? I mean I know its a hobbyst sort of OS, but what can you do with it though? Can you browse the internet? Watch videos? Thanks Chris I use it to manage my home

Re: [9fans] What do you use plan 9 for?

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Robert Raschke rtrli...@googlemail.comwrote: I use it to manage my home network (/sys/lib/local is s much easier than any other network Err, sorry, meant /lib/ndb/local (not sure how that turned itself into something else). Robby

Re: [9fans] env size limit

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Andreas Zell z...@imageaccess.de wrote: On 28 Okt., 10:42, rtrli...@googlemail.com (Robert Raschke) wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:21 PM, roger peppe rogpe...@gmail.com wrote: for instance when there are a few thousand source files and one wants to link

Re: [9fans] env size limit

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:21 PM, roger peppe rogpe...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/27 erik quanstrom quans...@coraid.com: On Tue Oct 27 12:52:52 EDT 2009, rogpe...@gmail.com wrote: the environment variable size limit is set to 16300 bytes which seems rather small; for instance it can break

Re: [9fans] nice quote

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Greg Comeau com...@panix.com wrote: Ok, now I'll get provocative: Then why do so many people have a problem understanding C? Please don't seriously say they don't. In fact, these same arguments are used against C by those who don't care for C. Go figure? I

Re: [9fans] Interested in improving networking in Plan 9

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Anthony Sorace ano...@gmail.com wrote: i've not used matt's sql module itself (i should check it out) so i can't comment on his implementation, but... SQL is really ugly. it's not hard to construct something that provides the same functionality in a much more

Re: [9fans] nice quote

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:38 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: On Wed Sep 2 10:33:07 EDT 2009, rminn...@gmail.com wrote: Q: Will C continue to be important into the future? (Dave Kirk, Nvidia)A: No, I think C will die like Fortran has isn't this the same company that claims

Re: [9fans] Interested in improving networking in Plan 9

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Bakul Shah bakul+pl...@bitblocks.combakul%2bpl...@bitblocks.com wrote: On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:33:13 CDT Eric Van Hensbergen eri...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Bakul Shahbakul+pl...@bitblocks.combakul%2bpl...@bitblocks.com wrote:

Re: [9fans] Lua on Plan9

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Roman V. Shaposhnik r...@sun.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 09:27 +0100, Robert Raschke wrote: Last time I tried, the standard Lua compiled out of the box under the APE. That is good to know. Still, I'd rather see it run without APE. Great little

Re: [9fans] Using proportional fonts in Acme for Programming

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Roman V. Shaposhnik r...@sun.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 11:55 -0600, Daniel Lyons wrote: I'd love it if Acme or Plan 9 had good support for some kind of Lisp variant. Speaking of which (or may be not ;-)) is there anybody using Lua on Plan9?

Re: [9fans] file server?

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: This is what we do at Sandia. We have one machine which serves cpu/auth/file, but the actual Venti disks are in a Coraid connected via GigE. The fossil disk is in the server, but if it dies we can just build a new one.

Re: [9fans] file server?

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:07 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: The venti archive starts at 2AM, and my cron job is at 4AM. So far, I've not yet had an archive take longer than 2 hours. But that's partly due to triggering one explicitly after a pull that's just replaced all my

Re: [9fans] Using proportional fonts in Acme for Programming

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Aaron W. Hsu arcf...@sacrideo.us wrote: So, I was browsing around the other day looking at Acme resources, and I discovered an old post from 1995 wherein someone advocated the use of proportional fonts for programming in Acme. I've been programming using

Re: [9fans] a few Q's regarding cpu/auth server

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Corey co...@bitworthy.net wrote: I imagine this is probably a subject full of landmines, so I don't want to start a war! I won't press the issue, just want to respond to this, and then I'll just leave the status quo well enough alone. I respect those

Re: [9fans] security questions

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Eris Discordia eris.discor...@gmail.com wrote: Very nice of you to go to lengths for describing Inferno to a non-techie. Thank you. Just got the Fourth Edition ISO and will try it. Maybe even learn some Limbo in long term. Also note there's a new book out that

Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

On 4/17/09, Balwinder S Dheeman bdhee...@gmail.com wrote: Please set aside rare cases and let us know who except for the students, teachers and, or researchers uses Plan9 and, or Inferno in the offices, homes and, or cafes and for what? At the risk (or maybe honour :-) of being branded as a

Re: [9fans] noweb and literal programming

On 4/10/09, Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've been thinking about 'well documented programs' and come across the 'noweb' program. Do you have any experience with literal programming and, particularly, noweb? (I noticed at least rsc seems to have played with it back in

Re: [9fans] extensions of interest

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Bakul Shah bakul+pl...@bitblocks.com wrote: Unfortunately we don't have exact analogs in s/w.  We can only simplicate; we can't add lightness! In manufacturing, I'd suppose lighter materials are harder to make and use, kind of like using low level languages for

Re: [9fans] Fwd: New Chip (SEAforth 40C18) - New Challenge

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:00 PM, maht mattmob...@proweb.co.uk wrote: SeaForth is dead already http://colorforth.com/vTPL.htm http://colorforth.com/S40.htm These docs aren't dated. And I remember a lot of discussion about 1 - 2 years ago about the patent issues surrounding Chuck Moore's

Re: [9fans] Fwd: New Chip (SEAforth 40C18) - New Challenge

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:24 PM, maht mattmob...@proweb.co.uk wrote: These docs aren't dated. they appeared in the last week or so, before that was a page saying TPL pulled funding  and sacked Moore Catching up with my online reading and the Forth group is indeed full of this since the

Re: [9fans] venti conf

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:19 PM, hugo rivera uai...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am a little confused about setting up venti (on linux). I followed the instructions found on the wiki, and venti is up. But now I am lost; as far as I understood (from the man pages) I have to run vac every time I

Re: [9fans] acme Put doesn't save

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote: It really seems that acme-sac does save in the described way (at least it saves). That makes me wonder. Do plan9 acme, p9p acme and acme-sac have more similar differences? Are the programs separate in their

Re: [9fans] spreding the word

It's got a whole chapter on alef, and the UI is still in B/W. Definitly for an older edition of Plan 9. 'Tis a shame there's absolutley no attribution to be found. I wonder who wrote the book? Seems to be quite readable. Robby

Re: [9fans] Acme and spaces in file names

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:26 PM, hugo rivera uai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I realized that acme gets confused when handling files with spaces in their names, is there an easy way to handle this? I mean, for example, when I paint a file name with an space on it, using the left click, it

Re: [9fans] inferno runs on n770 and n800/n810 (was: Re: How can I boot plan9 on my Compaq AlphaServer DS10L?)

Hi, On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:37 PM, fge...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Anthony Sorace ano...@gmail.com wrote: i like nokia's line, and would love to see a port of Plan 9 (or Inferno) to the 770 or N800 (there's an even newer one, but i forget the model off hand and

Re: [9fans] Very Off-Topic: Anybody here reads Sci-Fi? :)

I very much enjoy Samuel R. Delany (http://www2.pcc.com/staff/jay/delany/); especially Babel-17, Nova, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand and Dhalgren. The latter one is a good one for the holiday, as it's a tad longer. His short stories are well worth seeking out as well. His stories are

Re: [9fans] Gmail and upas

With Gmail you also have to be aware of the fact that Google does not actually implement IMAP to the standard. There are quite a few odd behaviours. A notable one has to do with deletion of emails, but I can't find the exact reference just now. (I can try digging if you're really intereested.)

Re: [9fans] Gmail and upas

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:14 PM, erik quanstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: by the way, i don't know of any way that gmail imap is not standard. perhaps this is in some esoteric corners of the protocol i'm not familar with. for the basic stuff, i haven't seen any issues at all. The two immediate

Re: [9fans] An Observation

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Andrew Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the one hand, Too many cooks spoil the broth. On the other hand, Many hands make light work. Cooks don't work, they give orders.

Re: [9fans] Help downloading Plan B using hget

hget -o $home/planb4e.tgz http://lsub.org/ls/export/planb4e.tgz The man pages with Plan 9 are really good. Well worth a read. Robby

Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers?

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * sqweek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everyone has write access to the plan 9 wiki. hmm, perhaps I didn't look hard enough, but I didn't see anything like an edit button etc ... ;-o Put in Acme Wiki.

Re: [9fans] mmap and shared libraries

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Eris Discordia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Man's got to know his limitations. Yes, _man_ has got to. That doesn't apply to deities :-P Why do gods that walk the earth invariably act like spoilt brats? Ah, hang on ...

Re: [9fans] Questions about plan9.

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Nolan Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It dosent work unfortunatley its probally something I did, can you really break each step down for me? Sorry! What doesn't work? You can't start upas/fs? Writing to /mail/fs/ctl doesn't work? Or Acme Mail doesn't work?

Re: [9fans] Questions about plan9.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Nolan Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody give me instructions on 1. How can I can configure mail? ( and do not just redirect me to the wiki page on it.) :-) Do you mean reading mail or setting up a mail server? For the former, the easiest is to use

Re: [9fans] I want to port some program or driver

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Siddharth Prakash Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to port some program or driver to plan9 which has not been ported yet and is of high priority. Please suggest me ! I think support for more wireless network cards was mentioned in the past. Or perhaps

Re: [9fans] invisible prompt in win

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Michael Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Open a win in acme. 2. Scroll down as far as possible. 3. Notice that there is no $prompt visible at left. 4. echo annoying 5. Now scroll back up and it turns out you entered the echo command at a prompt after all!

Re: [9fans] invisible prompt in win

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:19 PM, erik quanstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Open a win in acme. 2. Scroll down as far as possible. 3. Notice that there is no $prompt visible at left. 4. echo annoying 5. Now scroll back up and it turns out you entered the echo command at a prompt after

Re: [9fans] feeding factotum on boot

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Yaroslav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A question: how to feed a private (SSH host) key(s) to eve's factotum during the boot? The first what comes up to my mind is to save the key somewhere on fileserver, then to feed it to factotum from cpurc. Feel there should be

Re: [9fans] Does Plan 9 work under Microsoft's Hyper-V?

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Eris Discordia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It will eventually install but won't get past a specific step after the installed system is booted. I asked about the problem on 9fans. No solutions... yet. Here's the thread: http://9fans.net/archive/2008/01/547 With

Re: [9fans] Does Plan 9 work under Microsoft's Hyper-V?

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:16 PM, erik quanstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The run from cd booted up just fine in MS Virtual Server 2005. I never got round to installing it fully though. If I remember correctly, I started an install once, but had to turn off disk dma and then the formatting of a

Re: [9fans] window behaviour

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:05 AM, prem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % window -f $font (this opens a window and closes it), however % window (this opens a window) As far as I know, window doesn't take a -f option. So it's probably trying to run the command '-f /lib/font/...' in the new window,

Re: [9fans] Acme without Flamage

One of the central tenets of Plan 9 is that everything is a file. So all file based activities are really, really easy. Most OO programming appears to follow a more DB oriented style (at least those with horrendous packaging/module mechanisms). That files are used to store your programs appears

Re: [9fans] Using the Acme Editor

Going by your list, I would conclude your code is something in the vein of Java plus web stuff, maybe even J2EE, or maybe the scourge of the editing world, Python. If that's the case and you have to deal with other people's code, Acme is probably not going to help you very much. In fact Acme will

Re: [9fans] current state of thread programming

I think useful parallel programming paradigms can very probably be abstracted from really big systems like a national health system or an army. How parallelism is employed in those systems, would be a good starting point for a deeper investigation. Especially a military system must have some very

[9fans] P9P libthread on Debian ARM vs. makecontext et al.

Hi, I recently got myself a lovely Nokia N810 internet tablet. That runs Debian ARM and I thought I'd have a stab at compiling P9P for it. Unfortunately, the makecontext/swapcontext calls are not supported on that platform by Debian. I noticed that libthread/Linux.c has implementations of those

Re: [9fans] P9P libthread on Debian ARM vs. makecontext et al.

On 7/8/08, Michael Teichgräber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The code in Linux.c that implements makecontext() for ARM expects this struct to contain a gregs array. I'm guessing that gregs is the same as the enumerated arm_* ones above. So, would I be correct in assuming that gregs[13] is

Re: [9fans] sad commentary

Not sure when Mr. Adams wrote this, but I think it was mid-90's. First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII -- and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World

Re: [9fans] Eeepc

I don't think 9load can just boot off a usb yet. Can the eee bios make the usb look like a disk? What were those options in plan9.ini for letting the bios do the disk access? Robby