Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 15:11:57 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: cnielsen@pobox.com, Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, joelh@gnu.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on i386 memory model Message-ID: <4.1.19981123150953.00adf4a0@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811231201001.1621-100000@ender.sf.scient.co m> References: <3.0.5.32.19981123144427.00b40940@mail.scancall.no>
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At 12:06 PM 11/23/98 -0800, Christopher Nielsen wrote: >On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Marius Bendiksen wrote: > >> >Of course we don't. Nobody who cares about speed is going to use a 486. >> >> Are you saying that we're going to say to people "Hey, FreeBSD is not >> intended to run on anything less than a Pentium, we don't wish to get >> involved with anything less, the people out there who're stuck with a 486 >> had better go support Linux instead?" > >The point being made is that if you're interested in high performance, >you're not going to be using a 486 based server. You'll spend the extra >money and buy a faster CPU. That does not mean FreeBSD won't support 486 >based machines. What's the point in improving performance by a miniscule >amount for an already slow CPU? It's a waste of developer time, IMHO. Well peoples versions of amounts and sizes are varying anyway. But people still actively use 486 machines for FreeBSD. I've heard in some cases machines as low as 386 class being used as low-cost Terminal Servers. So I wouldn't be one to pull them out of the loop just yet. Although the cost of equipment has gone down, some of us bought the Pentium Class machine for ourselves, and then used the old 486-100 for FreeBSD. Fortunately I was able to work in a place where I got to buy a PII-333 for the sole purpose of FreeBSD. Is it overkill? You bet your ass on it. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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