Re: [9fans] Plan9 as an everyday OS

2009-07-12 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Andreas Eriksen wrote: > There is a list of tested usb sound cards at > http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Supported_PC_hardware/index.html > Beware, some of the ones working before might not work now (All I tested work, but who knows), and some that did no

Re: [9fans] C compiler question

2009-07-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> 8c silently accept the above definition and sizeof(U) is 100. ??? > The sources which include the definition of "NeverDefined" are > regularly compiled too and sizeof(U) = 100 + sizeof(NeverDefined). > i think the issue is that there isn't currently a distinction between this typedef

Re: [9fans] 9grid.net down?

2009-07-12 Thread ron minnich
I'll try to get 9grid.net back this week. It's on the ucb campus and maybe somebody dropped it. ron

[9fans] what does #pragma fpround do?

2009-07-12 Thread erik quanstrom
reading 8c (the only compiler that appears to implement this pragma), the difference appears to be in the conversion of (double, float) -> any type of integer. however, #include #include void main(void) { double d; d = 1.

Re: [9fans] what does #pragma fpround do?

2009-07-12 Thread Russ Cox
> generates the same output and same assembly > for both casts.  can anyone explain what this pragma > is supposed to do? it changes the rounding mode from the standard truncate to integer (expensive on a 387) to round to nearest (incorrect but cheap). #pragma fpround on pri

Re: [9fans] what does #pragma fpround do?

2009-07-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> > generates the same output and same assembly > > for both casts.  can anyone explain what this pragma > > is supposed to do? > > it changes the rounding mode from the standard > truncate to integer (expensive on a 387) to > round to nearest (incorrect but cheap). sure enough. here's timings i

[9fans] nemo's book - where is it currently hosted?

2009-07-12 Thread Corey
"Introduction to OS abstractions using Plan 9 from Bell Labs" Two previous sources for this document appear to be offline: http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf Where else (on the web) can I get hold of this? Thanks!

[9fans] Time for a new, yet not bleeding edge plan 9 box... (recommendations for a small x86, inexpensive PC)

2009-07-12 Thread David Leimbach
I just tried to load plan 9 on a machine that it used to run on, but now, for some reason, can not find it's CD drive. It's an old AMD Athlon, circa 2000 if I recall correctly, and when booting from the plan 9 CD, it does not find the CD drive. I thought at first I might try to figure out exactly

Re: [9fans] nemo's book - where is it currently hosted?

2009-07-12 Thread james toy
Corey ==8<== > "Introduction to OS abstractions using Plan 9 from Bell Labs" > > Two previous sources for this document appear to be offline: > > http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf ==8<== I suspect lsub will be back up very shortly. If you cannot wait until then feel free to mail me off list a

Re: [9fans] nemo's book - where is it currently hosted?

2009-07-12 Thread james toy
Corey ==8<== > "Introduction to OS abstractions using Plan 9 from Bell Labs" > > Two previous sources for this document appear to be offline: > > http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf ==8<== I suspect lsub will be back up very shortly. If you cannot wait until then feel free to mail me off list a

Re: [9fans] nemo's book - where is it currently hosted?

2009-07-12 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:28:26 -0400 james toy wrote: > Corey > > ==8<== > > "Introduction to OS abstractions using Plan 9 from Bell Labs" > > > > Two previous sources for this document appear to be offline: > > > > http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf > ==8<== > > I suspect lsub will be back up

Re: [9fans] nemo's book - where is it currently hosted?

2009-07-12 Thread Rob DeHart
It can also be found via archive.org at http://web.archive.org/web/20070324142435/http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf -Rob On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 4:19 PM, james toy wrote: > Corey > > ==8<== > > "Introduction to OS abstractions using Plan 9 from Bell Labs" > > > > Two previous sour

Re: [9fans] nemo's book - where is it currently hosted?

2009-07-12 Thread Corey
On Sunday 12 July 2009 15:19:07 Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:28:26 -0400 > > Not official at all, but no trouble either: > > http://eekee.org.uk/plan9/docbak/9.intro.pdf > > The more hosts, the less chance of it going missing. > Excellent - thanks; but just a heads-up, the d

Re: [9fans] nemo's book - where is it currently hosted?

2009-07-12 Thread Corey
Thanks all, much obliged! On Sunday 12 July 2009 15:19:07 Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:28:26 -0400 > > james toy wrote: > > Corey > > > > ==8<== > > > > > "Introduction to OS abstractions using Plan 9 from Bell Labs" > > > > > > Two previous sources for this document appe

Re: [9fans] nemo's book - where is it currently hosted?

2009-07-12 Thread Jason Catena
> The more hosts, the less chance of it going missing. In this spirit, newly mirrored at https://files.getdropbox.com/u/502901/9.intro.pdf Jason Catena

[9fans] ide fix?

2009-07-12 Thread erik quanstrom
after a week of fighting with an atom with ich7r sata in ide mode, i finally found the secret sauce that keeps it from "hanging." i pushed out a changed quanstro/9load-e820 and quanstro/sd which boot on my atom machine in ide mode without causing interrupt storms. other changes were included work