Re: [9fans] Loongson port, and 64 bit MIPS

2014-08-14 Thread Fausto Saporito
Yep it's cool! I have one from Tekmote (supplier for all Europe). They have also a laptop with Loongson 3 (full MIPS64). 2014-08-15 6:41 GMT+02:00 Skip Tavakkolian : > thanks! this is cool. > > btw, the only supplier i can find is aliexpress. are there any others? > > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7

Re: [9fans] Loongson port, and 64 bit MIPS

2014-08-14 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
thanks! this is cool. btw, the only supplier i can find is aliexpress. are there any others? On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:07 PM, cherry wrote: > Hello 9Fans, > > I just got a Loongson 2F machine (Yeeloong 8089A laptop) (MIPS LE), so > I extended my previous Loongson 2E port (32 bit) to run on it

[9fans] Loongson port, and 64 bit MIPS

2014-08-14 Thread cherry
Hello 9Fans, I just got a Loongson 2F machine (Yeeloong 8089A laptop) (MIPS LE), so I extended my previous Loongson 2E port (32 bit) to run on it. Now both machines can run Plan 9. Specific to 2F laptop, the keyboard, mouse, screen and ethernet are supported. The hard drive is supported only on 2E

Re: [9fans] The developers of Plan9 think there was no point in coding in binary code three years ago as they did or make the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia?

2014-08-14 Thread Lee Fallat
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > ask in your native language. we know how to use google translate. > > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:36 PM, françai s wrote: >> >> 2014-08-14 13:12 GMT-03:00, smi...@icebubble.org : >> > françai s writes: >> > >> >> I say this because abo

Re: [9fans] The developers of Plan9 think there was no point in coding in binary code three years ago as they did or make the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia?

2014-08-14 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
i've forwarded your request to SP9SS (i may be missing an S in there somewhere) for their immediate attention. they assure me it will be taken up at the next special session of the central committee. personally i think binary is passé. i'm waiting for processors that are base "some large prime" --

Re: [9fans] The developers of Plan9 think there was no point in coding in binary code three years ago as they did or make the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia?

2014-08-14 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
i've forwarded your request to SP9SS (i may be missing an S in there somewhere) for their immediate attention. they assure me it will be taken up at the next special session of the central committee. personally i think binary is passé. i'm waiting for processors that are base "some large prime" --

Re: [9fans] The developers of Plan9 think there was no point in coding in binary code three years ago as they did or make the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia?

2014-08-14 Thread françai s
2014-08-13 14:48 GMT-03:00, Aleksandar Kuktin : > > Is there a reason "Riga Technical University" and "University of > Latvia" are mentioned in every sentence? What exactly is the purpose of > this e-mail? Advertising? Fishing? Is this an automated "shotgun" > e-mail designed to extract some infor

Re: [9fans] The developers of Plan9 think there was no point in coding in binary code three years ago as they did or make the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia?

2014-08-14 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
ask in your native language. we know how to use google translate. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:36 PM, françai s wrote: > 2014-08-14 13:12 GMT-03:00, smi...@icebubble.org : > > françai s writes: > > > >> I say this because about three years ago the Riga Technical University > > > > YOU cannot say

Re: [9fans] The developers of Plan9 think there was no point in coding in binary code three years ago as they did or make the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia?

2014-08-14 Thread françai s
2014-08-14 13:12 GMT-03:00, smi...@icebubble.org : > françai s writes: > >> I say this because about three years ago the Riga Technical University > > YOU cannot say anything, because you are a spam bot advertising for "the > Riga Technical University and University of Latvia" and not a sentient >

Re: [9fans] The developers of Plan9 think there was no point in coding in binary code three years ago as they did or make the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia?

2014-08-14 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
it's a bad knockoff of Mark V. Shaney. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:12 AM, wrote: > françai s writes: > > > I say this because about three years ago the Riga Technical University > > YOU cannot say anything, because you are a spam bot advertising for "the > Riga Technical University and Universi

Re: [9fans] The developers of Plan9 think there was no point in coding in binary code three years ago as they did or make the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia?

2014-08-14 Thread smiley
françai s writes: > I say this because about three years ago the Riga Technical University YOU cannot say anything, because you are a spam bot advertising for "the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia" and not a sentient being. I wrote a prose engine a bit like this when I was in

Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)

2014-08-14 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Aug 14 02:55:58 EDT 2014, st...@quintile.net wrote: > I have had a look, found a copy of the doc from 1996 and failed to reproduce > the problem. > > I withdraw the accusation - tbl you are without bugs. but there are some font bugs that cause the small errors when converting to ps. e.g.: