Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 03:35:35 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: "Paul D. Robertson" <proberts@clark.net> Cc: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... Message-ID: <19970720033535.13811@gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970719171938.20855G-100000@gargoyle>; from Paul D. Robertson on Sat, Jul 19, 1997 at 05:28:39PM -0400 References: <19970719221428.10703@gtn.com> <Pine.LNX.3.91.970719171938.20855G-100000@gargoyle>
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On Sat, Jul 19, 1997 at 05:28:39PM -0400, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
> > IRQ 10 is a more sane default. Or do you all wanna say, that
> > most people install FreeBSD without X11 on a 80386 form 1990 ?!
> I'd say that most people choose older, cheaper hardware for a home network,
> and most people use FreeBSD at home.
Hardware isn't that expensive anymore. If I look into the magazines,
then you already get P200 machines for a very low price. And
I think 386 machines are really a bit out of date.
486 machines including a math coprocessor on the CPU chip are
really cheap as well. And you should get 16 Bit ISA cards for
very little money as well.
So I'd vote for the FreeBSD installation to directly support
hardware, that is in use today. Nearly everybody has a Pentium
I think, even at home and if not surely a 80486 machine.
I think 386 machines are mainly used as a standanlone ISDN
router ... But even then I'd prefer to put the ISDN card directly
into the "workhorse", then to have another machine wasting
energy.
> > Is FreeBSD turing PC's into workstations or is it only used
> > for lamer PC hardware ?!
>
> The first machine I put it on was a 386/25. If not for that, I certainly
> wouldn't have purchased a K6 to run FreeBSD on. Yes, the 386 is still
> running just fine, 'lamer hardware' that it is.
Oops, I just saw that my sentence could be understood wrongly.
I'm not referring to people who use that old hardware are lamers.
I meant the hardware itself to be lame ;-)
So please don't get me wrong.
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