Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:33:37 +0100 From: Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> To: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: Nick Withers <nick@nickwithers.com>, jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, danial_thom@yahoo.com, Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us> Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Message-ID: <eeef1a4c0607241133kf822fa1q3402c96a93538825@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0607240946g6593af27h3cc9621bd8e8e32e@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060713181058.56349.qmail@web33309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <002101c6af09$aacf32f0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <eeef1a4c0607240646i318c8b83xb3f5f7e81f1fabd@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a0607240946g6593af27h3cc9621bd8e8e32e@mail.gmail.com>
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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. Anyway, I am sure that Ted can speak for himself. Frem.
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