Paul Gilmartin wrote: >Which may be irrelevant because sooner or later they impel hardware >upgrades which aren't free.
Sure, but that's a universal truth. All operating systems that evolve eventually stop supporting older processors. Linux kernels 3.8 and above no longer support Intel 80386 (and 386 compatible) processors, as an example. Most Linux distributions dropped 386 support a long time before the kernel did in 2013. http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
