When I was watching that Lunduke's video a couple of days ago initially I was thinking he's just making a joke of that Vendefoul Wolf distro on 200MB box. I recalled using FreeBSD as access server with lots of modems (PPP/SLIP), Apache, Samba and QuakeWorld server running on a box with just 32MB of RAM. That was also my daily working machine with XF86 and Enlightenment desktop manager, circa 2000. So, 200MB is a whole lot of memory!

Is there Plan9 port for RISC-V (RV32I) ?

There's a 9legacy port, and an in-progress 9front port.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EOg6UzSss2A

That's interesting, thanks. I feel a need for simple multitasking/networking OS for synthesizable RV32I core (not RTOS like, but more like Unix or CP/M). Would be nice to try Plan9 on it once port is out.

Probably not. And there aren't many 32-bit RISC-V cores with an MMU. I guess you can use a simulator if you found one.

I use one written in SpinalHDL. :-)

Next question is how much RAM it needs to boot and can it be used without rio ?

Ice hockey player also here. Defence. Pretty neat analogy with Google. :)

Did you see tamatoes harvested that way ? They are suitable only for producing sauce.

Exceptionally good reading!

Get two FTDI FT232RL chips, connect them together on serial side (RXD->TXD, TXD->RXD, GND<->GND). Plug into USB ports of your computers, run terminals (or any other software that supports serial I/O), send/receive data. Can use XYZModem to send files, PPP for TCP/IP networking, etc. No programming involved. Cheap as hell.

Thanks for the idea. I think it's a great one, but I have a few concerns:

1) The two computers are on 2 different grounds, so I believe it could damage the computers. So I would like to isolate the ground somehow, I am not sure what the options are. I tried to look for opto-isolated options, but didn't really find something clear. Do you have any suggestion?

2) This specific chip is marked NRND (not recommended for new designs) on ftdi's website, So it feels slightly wrong to use it?

I wonder why I had to scroll so far down to find this comment

People even suggesting using two Ardinos which each have a USB serial chip on board

Are there any options to connect more than 2 computers via USB using hub topology?

No pointers ?

from the grammar:

> pointer_type = "^" type.

How about social.md which is gpg signed ?

Why not just sign the social.org file and publish it as social.asc or something?

Right. But I would still prefer markdown file format, so I could simply open it in web browser. :)

Sure. But the point of this system is you use it from emacs.

Nice reading. But...

> And of course, we must defeat git.

What's wrong with this guy and Git ?

From an email with the author:

"On Unix, I used RCS fairly happily. It was too verbose, but I fixed that. RCS, like most version control systems, also believed that the RCS archive or repository was authoritative and I don't accept that, I think that the checked-out source is authoritative. If you are grepping source, you really don't want to grep the archive files, and you shouldn't have to check out source just to compile. I view the archive as just history. So I added options to do things my way.

For my purposes, the Plan 9 dump, cp, diff and idiff work well. I don't miss a formal version control system.

Git is a horrific botch of a version control system: wasteful, slow, stupid, and unpredictable. When I check in source file(s), I want a snapshot taken always, and I don't want to be told, no, you can't do that, you have to rebase. The fundamental problem is that companies want to believe that multiple programmers can edit the same program at the same time. That's a great way to introduce bugs and break things. When editing a program, you want to have a stable view of it, so you know what you can rely on, you don't want it to be shifting underfoot. The idea that you can apply an arbitrary set of diffs, or subset, to some version of that program, and get a meaningful and correct program out is absurdly optimistic; I wouldn't trust it."

How does F8 compare to RV16 in terms of resources (die size) used and performance ?

How does it compare to AVR, another "8 bit architecture designed for C..."?