At Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:34:18 +1100, remailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > If I may say something.. new hardware is surprisingly cheap. > > If a NEW full featured celeron system with oodles of memory costs only > $600 (AUD)
There are many parts in the world where $600 in just about any currency are a fortune. And yes, these countries need computers as well for education and work. It's a challenge to provide them with affordable hardware. The solutions are usually either refurbishing electronic trash (but not your and my computer, they are a maintenance nightmare---they like to get 1000+ identical computers from a big company that's updating), or building affordable custom hardware like PDAs or laptops. Yesterday I read an article about a 100 USD laptop for school kids, and even that is considered to be too expensive. > I think that very old hardware (mentioned as 386, 486) could easily be > considered worthless to a point where you simply write it off as > something which is no longer up to the task of running the latest code > at a desirable speed if at all. This is true, but what we consider trash is commodity elsewhere. I am not saying that we should target this problem here and now. But it is important to keep it in mind. Now, the good thing is that what we have today will be trash when a fully usable Coyotos system will be released. ;) Thanks, Marcus _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
