Ken Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <Snip>
> >
> > Well put Jose! I hope we see something like this come from Linus. Looking
> > down the "time horizon", this issue will probably dissapear in 8 to 12
> > months, but in the interim, it just makes good business sense not to raise
> > potential obstacles to the further acceptance of Linux.
>
> I'm not so sure the 350 thru 600 K6-2's and 3's will go away that soon.
> I build systems for a living and as of yet see no compelling reason to retire
> my K6-2 450 as it performs nearly as well as most 850 900's do given the same
> software etc..
Well, Ken beat me to it!
I was planning to say basically the same thing, except that I don't build
systems for a living, and I don't have a K6-2. Instead, I currently use
a 486 for my firewall (running LM7.0.1), and until someone GAVE me a dual
p90 system I was planning on using another 486 as my file server. But
I *will* be using a 486 as my syslog server.
The point?
Simple - just because its ancient does not mean a bunch of us won't be
using it. And if I'm using a 486 after all this time, just think of
how long folks will be using the much faster K6's!
rc
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