From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 8 04:56:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA08707 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 04:56:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA08699 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 04:56:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from EXIT10 (i485-gw.cetlink.net [209.198.15.97]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA11666; Fri, 8 May 1998 07:55:56 -0400 (EDT) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Tony Overfield Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 11:58:22 GMT Message-ID: <3552efbc.258248161@mail.cetlink.net> References: <3.0.3.32.19980507095816.00689420@bugs.us.dell.com> <199805070251.TAA00511@antipodes.cdrom.com> <3.0.3.32.19980508005947.006ba3b4@bugs.us.dell.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980508005947.006ba3b4@bugs.us.dell.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id EAA08700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 08 May 1998 00:59:47 -0500, Tony Overfield wrote: >I don't mean to start a religious war. >This harsh opinion of the older systems is justified, in my mind, >because the "state of the art PC" (please excuse the apparent >oxymoron) is quite simply far more powerful than any "perfectly good >486 box." I have 486 DX4-100's running at 50MHz x 2 which do a full make world (-DCLOBBER -DNOGAMES) in 4.5 hours. Many pentiums, with the PnP BIOS you cherish, don't go much faster than that. So I believe that your harsh opinion of older systems is justified ONLY in your mind. You're a victim of marketing which brainwashes people to believe they must have the latest gadget, whatever it is. Computer manufacturers won't do well in business unless people throw out their hardware every three years and spend more money on new stuff. Is that a "dell" email address I see you posting from? Hmmmm.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message