Re: Processor requirements

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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 <address@hidden> 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" <address@hidden> 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
>
>
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