Re: [Aoetools-discuss] Introduction

[maht l. <mah...@ma...>]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:56:26 +0100, kelsey hudson <kh...@dr...>
wrote:
>  I'll
> forewarn you though: plan9 has horrible hardware support, largely
> because nobody uses it. Coraid was the first outside Bell Labs I've seen
> that use it in production :)  Say Hi to Glenda for me.

Your value of Nobody is a little low, you need to look a bit harder.
But you're right; one has to match the hardware to Plan 9, not the other
way around (usually).

I know we don't have "Plan 9 inside" stickers on stuff but we do exist in
the wild.

Don't come to Glenda for raw speed on comparative hardware, you'll be
disappointed.

However you might have enjoyed the Sydney Olympics where Plan 9 was used
to control the stadium lighting system :)
It is also used in some Lucent Mobile phone masts with a hard RT kernel.
And a few of us have our internet facing servers running Plan 9.
Oh and IBM run it on one of their 64,000 CPU Blue Gene super-computing
systems, but mainly for research.
It is from Coraid and IBM that some high bandwidth devices do have drivers
for fibre and whatnot.

Plan 9's networked nature means you can serve a vblade from files on any
transport from remote machines, not just over TCP/IP.

see you in irc://irc.freenode.org/#plan9 or on the mailing list :
9f...@9f...

matt