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) 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. Jeff On 11/18/05, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 22:53 -0300, Leonardo Lopes Pereira wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:07:37 -0500 > > "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This is a good question, If I need to say what kind of computers we > > need to support TODAY, I think that still important the support of > > i486 and i586. I do not know where do you live, but they are very used > > here, in Brazil. But if you think that this project will support > > computers of 2015 (I think that I am very optmist), I beleave that > > support to i586 is needed. > > Leonardo: > > The performance gap between the fastest i486 and a current Pentium-IV is > nearly three decimal orders of magnitude. Regardless of what instruction > set Hurd compiles for, there is simply no way that this large a range > can be effectively supported by a single set of applications. > > Try running FC4 on a 486 and you'll see what I'm talking about. > > I'm not saying that dropping the 486 is a desirable thing. I'm saying > that we are kidding ourselves if we think it's going to be done well. > > shap > > > > _______________________________________________ > L4-hurd mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd > _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
