Re: [9fans] video cards for 1920x1080

2011-04-06 Thread Stanley Lieber
>> This post didn't garner a response. A couple of years later, >> I have the same question. Is anyone running Plan 9 native >> at 1920x1080 with an LCD monitor? What video card are you >> using? What tweaks were necessary to get it to work? > > coraid has a terminal doing this using the on-board

[9fans] Busy mouse WAS: Re: Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?

2011-04-06 Thread smiley
Jacob Todd writes: > What are you running plan 9 on? The mouse shouldn't cause that to > happen. IBM ThinkPad T23, PIII, 1100 MHz, P9 4e straight from the ISO. Moving the mouse (USB) generates about 1000 -c/s and about 1300 -s/s. -- +---

[9fans] Structural Expressions

2011-04-06 Thread Taylan Ulrich B.
I've read Rob Pike's paper on structural expressions. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems that, the command language of sam (especially the text-selection mechanism of it; x, y, g chains) could be merged with expressions in the style of awk actions, and more importantly, added a functionalit

Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?

2011-04-06 Thread Yaroslav
finally, there are /bin/ape/sh which is a pdksh with its "features".

Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?

2011-04-06 Thread erik quanstrom
> a builtin read would still have to read one character at a time though. it's interesting that read breaks with plan 9 message-preserving tradition. - erik

Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?

2011-04-06 Thread erik quanstrom
> With a builtin read you don't pay the cost of a fork/exec per > char. And it would be less clunky -- instead of "foo=`{read}" > you can say "read foo". It is not like rc going to get fat by > adding read; it already has to read! i'd argue that rc shouldn't have any builtins. and i don't see h

Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?

2011-04-06 Thread roger peppe
On 6 April 2011 17:32, Bakul Shah wrote: > On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:53:43 MDT andrey mirtchovski   > wrote: >> so, an optimized /sys/src/cmd/read.c that doesn't read char-by-char >> should give us an improvement, right? right: >> 9grid% newaread >> 1.52u 22.56s 15.66r    newaread >> >> and that's j

Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?

2011-04-06 Thread Bakul Shah
On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:53:43 MDT andrey mirtchovski wrote: > so, an optimized /sys/src/cmd/read.c that doesn't read char-by-char > should give us an improvement, right? right: > 9grid% newaread > 1.52u 22.56s 15.66rnewaread > > and that's just for the silly "test" string. the improvement wo

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-06 Thread David Leimbach
Sent from my iPhone On Apr 6, 2011, at 1:27 PM, "Joel C. Salomon" wrote: > On Tuesday, April 5, 2011 1:33:30 PM UTC-4, David Leimbach wrote: >> What we need is an OS port of Plan 9 to Go that can run hosted on another OS >> or natively. >> >> InfernGo? > > Fuego. > +9! > --Joel >

Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?

2011-04-06 Thread Jacob Todd
What are you running plan 9 on? The mouse shouldn't cause that to happen. On Apr 6, 2011 11:29 AM, wrote: > Yaroslav writes: > >>> than appropriate for a line-oriented language like rc(1). As it stands, >>> rc(1) can have it's cake, but it can't eat it without a fork(2). >> >> As it was stated e

Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?

2011-04-06 Thread smiley
Yaroslav writes: >> than appropriate for a line-oriented language like rc(1).  As it stands, >> rc(1) can have it's cake, but it can't eat it without a fork(2). > > As it was stated earlier, a fork(2) is rather cheap here, so what's > your concern then? > Maybe it's time to forget the lectures ab

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-06 Thread Lucio De Re
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 10:06:49PM +0300, Yaroslav wrote: > > Why not to run Go directly on your Ubuntu laptop – without the 9vx > abstraction? Because I'm a Plan 9 fan? I use Ubuntu only because of limitations in Plan 9. Unfortunately, most of these limitations are going to be with us for a l

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-06 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Tuesday, April 5, 2011 1:33:30 PM UTC-4, David Leimbach wrote: > What we need is an OS port of Plan 9 to Go that can run hosted on another OS > or natively. > > InfernGo? Fuego. --Joel

Re: [9fans] advice and advice

2011-04-06 Thread EBo
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 23:23:38 +1000, Bruce Ellis wrote: i won't go into the pain i had at witch bank today. i was only there an hour. they got toey when i called lloydy to bring me a burger and my dog and sat on the floor with both and my dumbass nintendo game. I love you man ;-) EBo --

Re: [9fans] advice and advice

2011-04-06 Thread Bruce Ellis
ha ha. i accidentally got some stuff from the attached site (for some reason it's physically impossible to copy and paste the name). the manual is available in japanese only. noah! the best i have here is boyd's dictionary of japanese slang. not many occurences of "she has a nice ass" in the manual

Re: [9fans] video cards for 1920x1080

2011-04-06 Thread erik quanstrom
> This post didn't garner a response. A couple of years later, > I have the same question. Is anyone running Plan 9 native > at 1920x1080 with an LCD monitor? What video card are you > using? What tweaks were necessary to get it to work? coraid has a terminal doing this using the on-board video in

[9fans] video cards for 1920x1080

2011-04-06 Thread Stanley Lieber
> From: Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan > Subject: suggestion for a video card > Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:53:58 -0700 > > hi, > > i am looking for a video card for plan9. > > here are my requirements: > > - should do 1920x1080 at 60Hz so i can connect to my LCD TV via HDMI > - HDMI connector preferabl

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-06 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
the point is that if the linuxemu is provisioned properly (gmake, gcc, bash) to build the Plan 9 $GOBIN from source, then there wont be a need for a linux build box, or porting and maintaining gmake, gcc, bash, etc. one could also build Plan 9 binaries under linuxemu. options as i see them are: 1