Re: [9fans] acme Newcol question

What is “Replace”? I think diff is quite good by itself. Even Gitlab doesn’t seem to give a split view in merge requests. Also see “Balance the benefit of a feature against its overall cost” in Pike’s eloquent Window Systems Should Be Transparent. You can go the “right place” by selecting the

[9fans] acme Newcol question

I'm trying to figure out if there's an easy way to use Newcol within an acme window to show things side-by-side. It would be handy when comparing diffs. I think it will require code change. Intuition-wise, it seems like some sort of Newcol+"Replace" (or "Split"+"Replace"?) could be used to do this

[9fans] Re: 9k amd64 kernel and floating point

cpu% fpnote2 start counting ...postnote .postnote done floatnote mynote 499501 499501 with 9legacy 9k and my OpenBSD vmd patches. -- 9fans: 9fans

[9fans] Re: 9k amd64 kernel and floating point

I'm getting  start counting .postnote postnote done floatnote mynote ...499501 499501 on this 9k http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/9/ but geoff might have fixed some stuff. I'll proba

[9fans] 9k amd64 kernel and floating point

Hi all, Is anyone running the 9k amd64 kernel? I wrote a simple floating point test program and would very much like to know if it works for you. The program is at https://swtch.com/tmp/fpnote2.c. 6c fpnote2.c 6l fpnote2.6 6.out Successful output ends by printing 499501 499501.

Re: [9fans] NIX: first light

On Sun, Mar 02, 2025 at 08:08:26PM +0100, tlaronde wrote: > > BTW, the AM08PRO (AMD Ryzne 9, 8 hardware cores (16T)), with 32Gb of 16Gb but extensible. -- Th

[9fans] What was the "new graphics model" for Plan 9 going to be?

In the Acme paper under the Future section, Rob mentions that one of the reasons graphics aren't supported in Acme is because of a "new graphics model" being developed. Is there any more information on what this is/was going to be? Is it something that exis

Re: [9fans] NIX: first light

On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 08:06:24PM -0800, ron minnich wrote: > > Other help: identity good netboot x86 boxes, on which NIX will boot, that > won't break my bank account. Sadly, I've not had time to figure out why my > pc engines won't boot. I am pretty sure it's plan 9 not being happy with > the c

Re: [9fans] Need help explaining mouse gone crazy: HP DY651A/M-U0013-O

some mice are known to have disabilities, but nusb was a major change from usb. but what are the differences in compilers? there's a difference in available system calls too On Sun, Mar 2, 2025, 5:52 AM wrote: > Earlier I noticed, when I intended to only click on my 3 button mouse, > during the

Re: [9fans] Need help explaining mouse gone crazy: HP DY651A/M-U0013-O

Earlier I noticed, when I intended to only click on my 3 button mouse, during the click the mouse moved a bit inadvertently and hardware+software processed these very small and inadvertent movements. If it's only acme, you might want to take a look: https://groups.google.com/g/plan9port-dev/c/nLoLR