Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Jun 1997 17:59:40 +0200 (CEST) | From | Matjay Godec <> | Subject | Re: "obsolete" hardware |
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On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, yuri mironoff wrote:
> > > On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Martin Mares wrote: > > Give me a break - how many people are running Linux routers??? And > before there is a slew of "I do"s - percentage wise! MOST of the time > you want horsepower - not the ability to route. > Hard to say but I'll gues at least 50% of those who knows about Linux and its capbility to do routing.
> If you so love the 386 - its your prerogative. As far as I'm concerned > it is deceased - it RIP - it is a dead parrot (oops chip). > It is a live as it can be. I'm even great fan of ELKS linux stuff, because I hate to see my 286's laying around while they can perform some jobs. For example we use them to drive automatic drilling machines and thex work quite well.
> I am more concerned about the current situation with the "can't > get a free page", SMP lockups and the Adaptec timeouts - I'm experiencing > all of the above. I know there are people spending their precious time > fixing this - but I would hate to hear that any of this would wind up > on the backburner because of 386 support. I would be willing to > bet quite a bit of money that there are more AIC7XXX in use out there > than 386s. The same for goes for SMP machines. > How much :))
> Let me also put it in a financial perspective. Our company is > developing a distributed IDE. It so happens that Linux is the target > platform. I would hate to explain to my boss that the bright side of > the situation is that "Linux works on a 386". > Absolutly ! If IDE is for Integrated Development Environement than 100% yes. I know a lot of debvelopers who are stuck behind their 386's. Why not colect this market also ?
Just my 2 cents.
gody
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