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From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
Message-Id: <199901151620.LAA18129@toad.rmkhome.com>
Subject: Re: Old machines (was Re: Do you like my new NetBSD banner?)
To: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:20:17 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199901151153.WAA23270@balrog.supp.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au> from "Simon Burge" at Jan 15, 99 10:53:48 pm
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Simon Burge said:

>FWIW, the work end of my home link is still a 1.1 box.  It lives in a
>LAN room in a building that I'm not even sure I have access to anymore,
>and I'm a little too cowardly to try a remote upgrade...
>
>I can understand the historical argument too - during the recent upgrade
>of my home i386 to 1.3.3, I figured out that /usr/lib/libc.so.1.1
>isn't used by anything anymore (but a couple of things still use
>/usr/lib/libc.so.2.1) but couldn't bring myself to remote it :-)  I've
>still got a few binaries in /usr/local/bin that are pre-shared libraries
>that serve no real purpose but "history" - who uses zmodem any more?

Well, the gateway for rmkhome.com is a 486/33 running 1.0A from May
of 1995. Why? Because it works. I would probably still have a 0.9A
system running, but it fried itself in 1997. 

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