Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 09 Jun 1997 12:33:42 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mark H. Wood" <> | Subject | Re: "obsolete" hardware |
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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?
Speaking as the proud owner of a 486SX system (with no FP) I must say that I object strenuously to that remark. This box was brand-new just a couple of years ago and does its job very well. If you want to force people to upgrade everything they own, go get a job with Microsoft.
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer MWOOD@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU Those who will not learn from history are doomed to reimplement it.
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