From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 30 20:36:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA12149 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 20:36:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.auracom.net (root@mail1.auracom.net [165.154.140.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA12135 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 20:36:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arthur@col.auracom.com) Received: from outpost.col.auracom.com (ts2-30.tru.auracom.com [165.154.114.94]) by mail1.auracom.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA20269; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 23:38:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 00:37:07 -0300 (ADT) From: arthur To: P Lynch cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPro vs PII In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, P Lynch wrote: > heh I'm still very happy with my pentium 100, who needs new PC hardware > when the older stuff runs freebsd very well (and I don;t do windows) > I agree, FreeBSD is great for taking advantage of systems that some people think are "throw-aways". I've built two 486 systems out of mostly old parts, unfortuneately I did have to buy some, but .... add those two systems to FreeBSD and NFS and you get a whole lot of fun. > > On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Duncan Barclay wrote: > > > > > On 30-Jun-98 Tony Kimball wrote: > > > I'll move this to chat. > > > > > > Quoth Atipa on Mon, 29 June: > > >: > > > > [snip lots of alpha stuff] > > > > > > > > I'd feel pretty good buying Alpha hardware right about now if only > > > there was an upgrade roadmap. (That's always been the illusory carrot > > > motivating hobbyist hardware choices -- historically favoring intel -- > > > hasn't it? Modular upgrades, carrying over hardware from generation > > > to generation.) > > > > > > > But it doesn't really hold true now for us hobbyist. Things change > > so fast at the motherboard level that unless you upgrade every 6months > > you need to buy MB, CPU and RAM new each time. I've just spent > > about 3weeks trying to work out whether to get a PII, a super-7 or > > a "good" TX to upgrade from my 486. In the end I went for a TX board and > > spent the money I saved on a few toys (like a CDROM/sound card etc.). There > > was no way that a PII or socket 7 board would survive a cpu upgrade in > > say 18months time, which is when I feel I will want to > > upgrade again. > > > > Duncan > > Very happy with an upgrade resulting in about 8times performance improvement. > > Would be less inpressed with a PII-233 to PII-333 upgrade :-) > > > > --- > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, > > dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - arthur@col.auracom.com In a world without fences, is there a need for gates --end-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message