Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:06:40 -0800 (PST) From: Christopher Nielsen <enkhyl@scient.com> To: Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, joelh@gnu.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on i386 memory model Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811231201001.1621-100000@ender.sf.scient.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981123144427.00b40940@mail.scancall.no>
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On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Marius Bendiksen wrote: > >Of course we don't. Nobody who cares about speed is going to use a 486. > > Are you saying that we're going to say to people "Hey, FreeBSD is not > intended to run on anything less than a Pentium, we don't wish to get > involved with anything less, the people out there who're stuck with a 486 > had better go support Linux instead?" The point being made is that if you're interested in high performance, you're not going to be using a 486 based server. You'll spend the extra money and buy a faster CPU. That does not mean FreeBSD won't support 486 based machines. What's the point in improving performance by a miniscule amount for an already slow CPU? It's a waste of developer time, IMHO. -- Christopher Nielsen Scient: The eBusiness Systems Innovator <http://www.scient.com>; cnielsen@scient.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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