Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Jun 1997 22:27:22 -0500 (EST) | From | fb <> | Subject | Re: "obsolete" hardware |
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I think that linux's support of the slow, old, and dying, hardware is a tribute to its name as a viable os that makes the most of what you have.
Nick fb@chibacity.com
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Rob Hagopian wrote:
> >One of our firewall/routers was a 386 with 20Mb Seagate ST205 MFM drives. > >Its had a disk upgrade to a large (mostly empty) disk as the 205 was starting > >to die of old age > > They really don't make bad machines for routers and dialin lines. We have > two 386s with just a network card and some modems acting as dialin > terminals. > But I really see no reason to have 386 support (and I'd say drop math > emulation too so that people can use FP in the kernel) in the 2.1.x and > later kernels. None of the new features are really worth implementing on > such old hardware. Is anyone really going to have an IPv6 modem pool? And > if you're doing IPv6 routing wouldn't you want a 486 anyways? > -Rob H. > > >
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