From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lyricalnanoha@dosius.ath.cx (lyricalnanoha) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 00:07:23 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 42, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: <20071005033318.GC5680@bitmover.com> References: <20071005033318.GC5680@bitmover.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Larry McVoy wrote: > No offense intended, but why waste time on 386 (or even way more time on > 286)? I can't imagine that anyone has any of those machines anymore. I've got an Apple //e (65SC02, 1 MHz, 128K RAM). > And if anyone is so broke that they do and can't afford a newer machine > I have piles of celeron boxes looking for a home. 300-500mhz with 64-128M > and probably a broken disk but maybe it works. You pay shipping and they > are yours. If you are doing interesting work and you are really broke > I'll pay shipping. How much? If you've still got a bunch, I might look into it when my next check comes in. I could use a spare box to throw BSD on for experimentation :P > But 286? Come on. Let it go, it sucked. I can almost see the point of > 386 except that nobody has one. I did a lot of my development work on a 386/25 (upgraded from a 286) but that was 7 years ago. -uso.