[geeks] A Real OS? (was: Re: my capitalization.. etc.)

[Eric Dittman]

> > But you are saying having a lesser amount of supported
> > hardware is a good thing, and less supported hardware
> > means fewer users.
> 
> 
> I like that idea.  I used to set up Solaris x86 production servers and 
> bought the hardware that was supported.  Damn things ran like a tank.

I've heard Solaris x86 has been pulled back from the dead,
which is a good thing if true.

> More choices are not always better.  Especially since most PeeCee 
> hardware is rushed to market and designed to be obsolete before 
> everybody finds the massive amounts of bugs.

Right now the piece of hardware I really need supported to
use *BSD is Sun's SBUS FDDI card.
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