On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:31:31PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
> It's a pretty simple concept, really.
Right, so if I want to buy a computer (hardware) that is actually
designed and built well from the ground up, what then? Most are i386
which, no matter how well built, being i386 is a pile of legacy crap.
Amd64 still has to be able to run i386 so still has the legacy crap.
HP's now are i386/amd64. Sun is Sun; designed to meet market forces
competing against i386/amd64. IBM has a whole slew of Power-based stuff
that costs an arm and a leg new (lots of old stuff available though)
that I'd like to try but you can't run OpenBSD on it.
So if nobody makes really good hardware then there's nobody to reward
for it, so you end up buying bad hardware and rewarding the maker for
it.