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From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
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On 7/24/06, Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nikolas,
>
>
> On 24/07/06, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > This would be like running Windows 3.1 on a brand new Xeon 5100
> > dual-core CPU... sure it will run fast* but what the hell are you
> > going to do with it? Play solitaire?
>
>
> You have this the wrong way round. The correct allusion would surely be
> something like "imagine running  XP on a 80386", not an old OS on new
> hardware. Old OSs don't always run at all on new hardware.
>

I used the Inverse example for a reason.

> Anyway, I am sure that Ted can speak for himself.
>

Don't worry, ted will...


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