On 20/06/2020 07:16, Dave McGuire wrote:
On June 20, 2020 12:01:40 AM Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost> wrote:On 19/06/2020 23:08, Dave McGuire wrote:On 6/19/20 5:09 PM, matthew sporleder wrote:I personally think running such an old and inefficient computer is, literally, immoral when a modern $30 machine can emulate it perfectly using as much electricity as a small CFL light bulb and leave over 700mb of memory to spare.Sure, but it's, to put it simply, NOT THE REAL THING. If you don't get it, that's fine. Don't run one.But there's a massive difference between compiling and running. Cross compiles in NetBSD is what the base OS excells at.NetBSD used to run great directly on VAXen. On real hardware.
That's literally what I just said! Do I run NetBSD on my ERLITE? YES! Do I compile on my ERLITE? NO!It's also not memory that's the concern. It's just too slow and more efficient to offload that task to a more capable machine.
My ERLITE is in constant use 24 hrs a day and is super rock solid, thanks to NetBSD. Roy