Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote:
linux is actually quite easy and has been for about 12 years or more
... not sure of the others.
I was running diskless Windows in 1995; it wasn't pretty, but it could
be done. These days you can run XP+ diskless if you have the right
Windows Server and installation tools fu.
Don't get me started on diode plugboard 'ROM', mercury or nickel-iron delay
lines and 'upgrading' to mag drum memory now...
Time was when a power user's *personal* computer (~US$ 25,000+ in 1968-69
dollars [1]) had the full-house complement of RAM it could hold.
All 8 kilobytes of it.
;-)
.. and we controlled satellites and serious weapons systems with those as well
as digitizing electro cardiograms and such.
More seriously - there's another probable reason Plan9 hasn't found greater
take-up.
No need to share when there are enough sheep to go around...
Bill
[1] For which price one could buy anywhere from four to twelve new automobiles
at the time.
