Re:I still use my PS/1, NetBSD works just fine
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No, I don't use X (nor do I have a mouse connected, and contrary to some comment I saw earlier it boots just fine without). Even on more powerful computers I don't use KDE. iceWM has kept working (and even better, working the same way, on half a dozen different computers, three different operating systems, and several different X versions) during the last five years or so.
On a side note, Linux runs fine on the PS/1 as well (tested with a statically linked busybox system), but I haven't yet found a good userland.
Besides, my PS/1 has one of those shiny new 32-bit 80386 processors, not the old '286.
I have an upgraded PS/1 (6MB RAM in total, AWE32 soundcard, 3c509 NIC, and an extra ISA IDE controller which, unlike the native hard drive controller, is supported by BSD and Linux). It's still in use, and I run NetBSD 3.1 on it (dual boot with DOS 6.22). Everything except the keyboard works perfectly.
This 15 year old flop is able to run the latest version of a current operating system, in a time where a 3 year old computer is considered too old. Personally I think every coder should keep a machine like this (not necessarily a PS/1) in order to avoid thinking "it runs fast enough on my overclocked quad core Athlon64 so who could possibly complain about performance?"
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No, I don't use X (nor do I have a mouse connected, and contrary to some comment I saw earlier it boots just fine without). Even on more powerful computers I don't use KDE. iceWM has kept working (and even better, working the same way, on half a dozen different computers, three different operating systems, and several different X versions) during the last five years or so.
On a side note, Linux runs fine on the PS/1 as well (tested with a statically linked busybox system), but I haven't yet found a good userland.
Besides, my PS/1 has one of those shiny new 32-bit 80386 processors, not the old '286.
I have an upgraded PS/1 (6MB RAM in total, AWE32 soundcard, 3c509 NIC, and an extra ISA IDE controller which, unlike the native hard drive controller, is supported by BSD and Linux). It's still in use, and I run NetBSD 3.1 on it (dual boot with DOS 6.22). Everything except the keyboard works perfectly.
This 15 year old flop is able to run the latest version of a current operating system, in a time where a 3 year old computer is considered too old. Personally I think every coder should keep a machine like this (not necessarily a PS/1) in order to avoid thinking "it runs fast enough on my overclocked quad core Athlon64 so who could possibly complain about performance?"