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Zane H. Healy wrote:
>>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 
>>so damned reliable. Mainly, I do software development, but when I have 
>>time, I uhh... can't remember.
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> Welcome to the list!
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> I'm curious, what makes you consider them so reliable?  Are you saying
> they're more reliable than modern x86 hardware?  I'm curious as I can
> understand many of the motivations for collecting other hardware, but 
> not x86 PC's.  I assume you're not running some bizarre OS, that requires
> the hardware, that and interfacing with strange hardware that you need and
> won't work with newer systems are about the only reason besides games that
> makes sense to me.  
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> At the same time my own dislike of PC Hardware of that vintage might be
> colouring my perception.  After all, most of the systems I run don't make
> sense to most people.
> 
> 	Zane
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Sorry for such a late reply, but all of my boxen (save a Mac that's in 
such bad condition it's nothing but a few pieces of metal and the 
motherboard plus psu which is also dead, could use the mobo for 
something) are all i386 or better. I would really love to get my hands 
on a SPARC box, or some money to pay for said box (hell, shipping ain't 
free). I responded to a email a friend forwarded to me from this list 
(beforee i subscribed) about some sparcs, but shipping was well over 150 
dollars, and that's about all the money i've had for the last 3 years 
combined (I am rather poor...)

No, I do NOT have a job, nor could I pass a piss-test to get one.

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The real problem with C++ for kernel modules is: the language just sucks.
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