Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 00:37:07 -0300 (ADT) From: arthur <arthur@col.auracom.com> To: P Lynch <lynch@rush.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPro vs PII Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980701003113.23268P-100000@outpost.col.auracom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980630175318.20900E-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
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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
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