4 Aug
2006
4 Aug
'06
7:54 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
A point I forgot to mention...
My bedroom is about 9' by 12'. I honestly have nowhere to put a PDP-11,
which would probably fall through the floor anyways (I live in a trailer).
And to note, my entire hardware collection is 32-bit x86, save a busted
up Macintosh. My 386 is my oldest machine.
And note: If I want to play a video game, I'll do it on my main system.
I mean, Doomsday/jDoom is rather nice for DOOM.
On a final note: My main desktop run Linux, my other box run Windows
2000 with Microsoft's Interix subsystem installed, and my Dell runs FreeBSD.
Don't ask about the 486 or 386, I can't remember. Probably DOS.
--
The real problem with C++ for kernel modules is: the language just sucks.
-- Linus Torvalds
I am a 16 year old high school student who works
with computer daily. I
perfer to work with older systems (386s are fun!) because they are just
I am curious as to what is 'fun' about 386s (I assume you mean PC
compatibles, and not, for example, Sequent multi-processor machines).
They're not old enough in general not to use ASICs (or at least the clone
chipsents) on the motherboard. You're not going to get schematics or BIOS
source listings in most cases. So the real low-level hardware/software
hackability of these machines would seem to be little different from a
more modern PC.
To me, therefore they appear to be just a slower version of said modern
PC. They've got no real advantages that I can spot (unlike, say, one of
my PDP11s, or PERQs, or HPs, where (a) there is low-level documentation,
(b) they are repairable easilty to component level and (c) they run
rather diffeernt software to PCs). Can you enlighten me?
-tony