Date: 08 May 1998 17:54:21 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) Cc: Tony Overfield <tony@dell.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? Message-ID: <xzpyawcvjv6.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: jak@cetlink.net's message of "Fri, 08 May 1998 11:58:22 GMT" References: <Your message of "Thu, 07 May 1998 09:58:16 CDT."<3.0.3.32.19980507095816.00689420@bugs.us.dell.com> <3.0.3.32.19980507095816.00689420@bugs.us.dell.com> <199805070251.TAA00511@antipodes.cdrom.com> <3.0.3.32.19980508005947.006ba3b4@bugs.us.dell.com> <3552efbc.258248161@mail.cetlink.net>
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jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) writes:
> On Fri, 08 May 1998 00:59:47 -0500, Tony Overfield <tony@dell.com>
> wrote:
> > This harsh opinion of the older systems is justified, in my mind,
> > because the "state of the art PC" (please excuse the apparent
> > oxymoron) is quite simply far more powerful than any "perfectly good
> > 486 box."
> I have 486 DX4-100's running at 50MHz x 2 which do a full make world
> (-DCLOBBER -DNOGAMES) in 4.5 hours. Many pentiums, with the PnP BIOS
> you cherish, don't go much faster than that. So I believe that your
> harsh opinion of older systems is justified ONLY in your mind.
Allow me to add that it has {long|always} been a point of honor for
the "FreeBSD crowd" that we can run on practically any PC, from the
old 386 gathering dust on my shelf¹ to the shiny new 400 MHz PII box
Steinar told us about which builds world in 46 minutes.
Tony, you might be surprised to find out just how useful a rusty old
386 can be if you stick a NIC in it and boot PicoBSD from a floppy.
Add a second NIC and you have a full-featured IP firewall. It may not
have horsepower for much more than 10 Mbps, but that's all that's
needed.
¹ well, it's just a motherboard, but fully functional AFAIK :)
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