[openbeos] Re: AW: Re: Support for Ancient Computers?

Ronny Wisor wrote:

>Most people use older hardware like Pentium II/III. I use two Pentium III
>and even much older CPUs. They do what they supposed to do. These Computers
>are fast enough to run Office applications an to browse the web. 
>I vote for supporting older hardware. ;-)

Um, those are i686/x86.  Brian would be referencing support of regular
Pentium and the like.

The problem with several of the Pentium platforms is they had non-standard
USB implementations.  Also, I've run into several cases of illegal bios and
bad chipsets.  IMHO I don't really think the problem is so much code
support.  From an organizational perspective, I would not want to provide
help support for these devices.

Also, from a power consumption point of view is it really wise to run such
older systems?  The poor amount of computing power to electricity usage
seems to justify the cost of getting something a bit better.  I personally
got rid of my Pentium systems for that reason.  As for my Pentium II? I'm
still deciding.

Curtis

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