Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 18:08:53 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: allenc@verinet.com (Allen Campbell) Cc: smithi@nimnet.asn.au, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad 16550A maybe? Message-ID: <200009030108.SAA08680@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <39B19295.3D66E41@verinet.com> from Allen Campbell at "Sep 2, 0 05:51:49 pm"
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As I recall, Allen Campbell wrote: > I would kill for a kernel option that makes patching unnecessary but > the attitude, as expressed above, that anything faster than a 386SX25 > can not possibly be too slow seems to preclude this. I believe there > is a shortage of under powered hardware among the developers. Maybe > that is a good thing. :) I don't think so. One of the sources for hardware to run FreeBSD on in the corporate world is the machines that are too slow to run the current M$ offerings. We've got a bunch of 486 machines doing perfectly good work as nameservers, time servers, mail forwarders, etc. It's a =good= thing that FreeBSD uses a small hardware footprint. Worst case I've encountered (and it was more for the sport than utility) was a Compaq 386/20 laptop with an 80meg hard drive and 8meg of RAM. I loaded 2.1.7 on it over a laplink cable connecting the parallel port to a running bigger system. Worked fine. I'm not saying FreeBSD shouldn't run on bigger iron, just that it's good it doesn't need to. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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