Messages in this thread | | | From | (Bruce J. Bell) | Subject | Re: "obsolete" hardware | Date | 11 Jun 1997 20:02:07 GMT |
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On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 10:22:40 -0400 (EDT), yuri mironoff <yuri@buster.rgti.com> wrote: [...] > Again my point is not to waste time developing for obsolete >hardware. > > 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). > > 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.
OK, think about this: how many Linux *developers* are running off of 386's? How much "development power" will Linux *lose* if developers with old hardware are alienated?
We've all seen this kind of thing before: people politicking the Linux community to somehow give their project more resources. But it's a volunteer effort -- people work on what seems important to them. Until Linux takes over the world, it's *not* a zero-sum game.
I understand that you want more people to work on your problems, to the exclusion of theirs. But doesn't it seem kind of petty to demand it?
Bruce -- You are the lens of the world: the lens through which the world may become aware of itself. The world, on the other hand, is the only lens in which you can see yourself. It is both lenses together that make vision. (--R. A. MacAvoy)
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