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From: Steve Kotsopoulos steve@ecf...
Subject: PC-clone hardware
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 14:06:58 -0400

a82@blu... (Henner Gratz) wrote:

> Now, after Plan9 is available for everyone, I plan to order my CD-ROM.
> I want to install it on a 486/Pentium PC. Because I don't own such a beast at
> the moment, I will have to buy one. And here the problems start. On what
> main-boards, graphic-cards etc. Plan9 will run. The WWW-pages on plan9.att.com
> aren't very detailed. I have also read the lists spread in the 9fans mailing
> list, but they are from 1994 for the old distributions. 
> 
> So here's my question: Is there a list covering the new distribution?

In Apr/95, jmk@pla... posted a note about the PC-clone hardware they
use at the Labs. I have converted it to html (with the troff2html program on
forsyth's ftp site) and put it on http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/plan9/

Hopefully this should be useful to others.

Once lots of people receive their CDROMs, Please send any updates for the
draft FAQ on that page to me.