From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 8 11:14:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06410 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 11:14:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06375 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 11:14:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.tera.com) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [207.224.230.127]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA22645; Fri, 8 May 1998 11:13:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA29111; Fri, 8 May 1998 11:13:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805081813.LAA29111@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980508112359.006ef388@bugs.us.dell.com> from Tony Overfield at "May 8, 98 11:23:59 am" To: tony@dell.com (Tony Overfield) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 11:13:48 -0700 (PDT) Cc: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, jak@cetlink.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org According to Tony Overfield: [[ ... ]] > Maybe I've got a language problem here. I'm using obsolete to indicate > "uncompetitively slow" to the point that the average user would not use > it. That doesn't mean, as obsolete normally does, that there is NO USE > for such systems. Since you guys are so picky, I think I'll word things > more carefully next time. > > - > Tony > One thing that most BSD'ers share, I think, is that we are cheap---or perhaps `thrifty' is more appropriate. I ran my first 286 UNIX for 5 years; my second 386 SVR4 box for 5 years; and am going on 3 years with my P90. (My 6x86 is an upgrade of the 386. ) I don't claim that it's a virtue to cheat Intel out of even more billions; just unnecessary. With solid and stable software like FreeBSD, you can squeeze extra years out of ancient hardware. gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message