From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
"One Thousand Gnomes" <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@kernel.org>,
"Robert Richter" <rric@kernel.org>,
"Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@amacapital.net>,
"Matt Fleming" <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>,
"Jörg Rödel" <joro@8bytes.org>, "Jiri Kosina" <jkosina@suse.cz>,
"Jeff Mahoney" <jeffm@suse.com>, "Michal Hocko" <mhocko@suse.cz>,
"Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@suse.cz>,
"Andre Przywara" <andre@andrep.de>,
"Andreas Herrmann" <herrmann.der.user@gmail.com>,
"Richard Weinberger" <richard@nod.at>,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Drop 32-bit support ... finally.
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 11:50:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150401155029.GA23978@codemonkey.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F32A3DF5B@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 03:46:37PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > Hey! My father still has a PDP-15/30, complete with core memory, 4
> > DECtape units, and a high speed punched paper tape reader, all in
> > a really tiny footprint of 4 full-height 19 inch racks, in his house.
> > It hasn't been turned on in over a decade, but doesn't deserve a Free
> > Unixlike OS of its own? :-)
>
> It would be greener to write a java emulator to run in a browser on a phone (1e4 less power? 1e5??)
> Probably run 100x faster too.
I wonder at what point do we say the same thing about ia64 ?
Dave
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-01 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-01 8:15 [PATCH] x86: Drop 32-bit support ... finally Borislav Petkov
2015-04-01 8:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-01 8:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-01 8:56 ` Robert Richter
2015-04-01 9:38 ` Robert Richter
2015-04-01 17:28 ` Andi Kleen
2015-04-01 11:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-01 14:41 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-04-01 15:41 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-04-01 15:46 ` Luck, Tony
2015-04-01 15:50 ` Dave Jones [this message]
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