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Re: [PLUG] Linux for SPARC?
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agreed.
I have been wasting time getting the first machine I actually purchased to
work on the web lately. An Acer 915 - 80286. I admit it was just for s
and g. It is doable.
bs
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Magnus wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 02:58 PM, Bob Schwier wrote:
>
> > 486's?
> > There are those in the rest of the world who would cream for such.
> > Can you imagine what someone with a bit of knowledge could do for
> > school
> > children in Mombasa with 486's?
>
> When I worked at d00k University, an only slightly better machine was
> doing email *and* web pages for all of Arts & Sciences dept. And that
> was running the evil OS known as Solaris x86.
>
> What Linux, at a minimum, or even BSD could do on such a box... *sigh*
> ... kids today, seem to think that machines get slower as they get
> older.
>
> My first 486 was a godsend. I was developing in COBOL at the time.
> Compiling was orders of magnitude faster (in human time) on the 486
> than the mainframe. I did all of my development work from that point
> on at the PC and simply recompiled the same exact code (wrapped in a
> different JCL) on the mainframe when it was done. That was a clock
> doubled 486 25MHz (running at 50MHz internally).
>
> My first Pentium, a Pentium 60MHz running OS/2, was more machine than I
> knew how to fill for awhile. I had an 8 line BBS running off of it
> plus all my desktop stuff plus file & print services for my LAN (ARCnet
> rules, baby!).
>
> And it pains me that big PC manufacturers aren't doing more to
> facilitate getting our *trash* computers to the places that really want
> them. It pains me when I actually throw out a machine, and I have had
> to do that too much in order to keep from literally filling my home.
>
> If I didn't have a family to support, I think it would be really cool
> to take a bunch of old computers to a developing nation and build an
> infrastructure for some of the schools there.
>
> --
>
> C. Magnus Hedemark
> http://trilug.org/~chrish
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>
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