Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:53:53 -0600 From: Doug Kirk <dbkirk@gmail.com> To: sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu Cc: FreeBSD X11 mailing list <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DRM removal soon Message-ID: <CAGhTqAXx-xBM6yP33DW5QRYVzexURy7asCd4HJgfCOShGPO4rw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20190228210635.GA31257@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20190228194929.GA18747@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <201902282034.x1SKYWMi006337@slippy.cwsent.com> <20190228210635.GA31257@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 3:07 PM Steve Kargl < sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > > Seems our experiences are exact opposites. :( > > I suppose it is the bane of those of who cannot afford > new hardware every 2 or 3 years. > > Hmm, because amd64 has only been available for the last 2 or 3 years? It was added to FreeBSD as experimental in 5.1-RELEASE (June 2003) and standard in 5.2-RELEASE (January 2004). Jeff Atwood commented on desktop adoption of x86-64 in 2007 here: https://blog.codinghorror.com/is-it-time-for-64-bit-on-the-desktop/ , and it even mentions that graphics cards don't like 32-bit limits. If you bought an x86-32 system within the last 2-3 years, why is that anybody else's fault that your graphics-based computer was obsolete when you bought it? Please stop whining on the mailing list, you're just adding noise by setting up straw-man arguments.
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