On 14 July 2014 17:25, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
If you're just going to run a modern NetBSD, why
on earth would you bother
running it on slow, memory-constrained hardware from the 80's?
Why? Probably because the new OS does something the old one doesn't
Well for Unix, I would think that the NetBSD is easier to upkeep.
A lot of these guys are not programmers and don't have the ability to port whatever
they need to.
They can just put in a new OS and it's updated, patched and ready to go.?
I can tell you as a SGI owner, an Indigo makes a great workstation. I can do a lot and
it's just as fast for most tasks as a modern Chrome box. I highly recommend people try
SGIs. (that's just my own personal bias)?
For non-unix I would say the same.?
Case in point.. Who do people run Contiki on Commodore 64s?
http://contiki.cbm8bit.com/
Because you can then do the Commodore 64 Twitter client
http://hackaday.com/2009/06/15/c64-twitter-client/
Why write a whole TCP stack for the Commodore 64 when you have Contiki.