Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:52:06 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Message-ID: <ef10de9a0607241152n1f8c43draf10f204bc8a383@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <eeef1a4c0607241133kf822fa1q3402c96a93538825@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060713181058.56349.qmail@web33309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <002101c6af09$aacf32f0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <eeef1a4c0607240646i318c8b83xb3f5f7e81f1fabd@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a0607240946g6593af27h3cc9621bd8e8e32e@mail.gmail.com> <eeef1a4c0607241133kf822fa1q3402c96a93538825@mail.gmail.com>
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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... -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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