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From: Sri Muliani smuliani@cix...
Subject: Question regarding plan 9.
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 14:20:00 -0500

        Hi, I am one of AT&T GIS customer in INDONESIA.
We want to ask several questions regarding Plan 9:
        1. Is it possible to run Plan 9 on a special PC with  multiple 
            types of processor inside ? System configuration:
            Intel Pentium Pro motherboard.
            SPARC co-processor card.
            R4600 co-processor card.
        2. Is the application program (binary code) trully portable
            across all the different platforms ? 
            (User can run un-modified program on several different
            platform, without any re-compilation).
        3. Can user add/reduce number of processors without changing
            the application program (binary code) ?
        4. Does Plan 9 run on SMP PC (IBM/AT&T GIS/Compaq/Corollary) ?
        5. Does Plan 9 run on microchannel machine (AT&T GIS/IBM)?
        6. Is there any plan to port the Plan 9 to PowerPC platform/DSP?
 
        Please send the answers to my electronic mail address.
Thank you very much for your kind attention and help. Best regards,
                                                  :-)
                                          (Mr R. Hamdani)
                                smuliani@cix...
                                          INDONESIA
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