ref: Microsoft barriers to Linux adoption on the desktop

[Mike McCarty]

Guy Fraser wrote:

[I wrote]

>>It looks to me like MicroSoft products are much better able to keep
>>older hardware going than Linux.
> 
> 
> Not if you compare apples and oranges.
> 
> Knoppix is no older than XP, can you run XP on those machines...
> 
> I didn't think so.
> 
> Have you tried a really old version of SlackWare from around 
> 1995 to see which machines it would run on?
> 
> I didn't think so.

I don't have to. NO version of Linux has EVER run on an 8088 or
an 80286. Period.

[snip]


> As far as I know, the 80386 was the first processor supported
> by Linux, or BSD but I don't know. Back in those days, I 

What I said. MicroSoft products are better able to run
on old hardware than Linux.

You agree, so there's no need for further discussion.

Mike
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