Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jun 1997 08:50:43 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Nicholas J. Leon" <> | Subject | Re: "obsolete" hardware |
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On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, yuri mironoff wrote:
# Whoa there!!!! I dare you to produce any modern Microcrud software # that runs well on a 486.
Ok, I'm not sure if that comment was <sarcasm> or what, but I just wanted to comment that we [my company] does in fact use a MASS of 386 & 486's. We load up WfW on them, Pathway's NFS, Access2 and then use it to access a multigigabyte database that's served off a UltraSparc running Oracle 7.x.
Works like a &*&#'ing charm. Cheap, too. Considering we have well over 70 client boxes with this configuration, upgrading these machines to Pentium's would be cost-prohibitive. They work just /fine/ as they are.
As the addage<sp?> goes, "Don't fix what's not broke."
<and btw, I also [at home] run a 386SX-16 w/2MB RAM, no video, no HD, Linux 2.0.29-ISS4 - it's a nameserver/timeserver>.
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