> Gerard Roudier wrote:
>
> > But being the low price at which we can buy way faster and reliable SCSI
> > adapters nowadays you may have problems to find a volunteer for
> > maintaining the driver for such an old horse that in real life had gone to
> > the abattoir years ago.
>
> I have such a beast still working in one of my machines. It is a
> 486DX4/100EISA, which I got very cheap including 128M of very special
> memory (16MBx9 SIMMs). After my DPT died I switched to the AHA1542CF
> which was lying around somewhere. For 2 (rather old) disks and a tape
> itīs enough.
>
> Think of existing systems.
1 day-engineer cost is about $500...$1000, and you can have some modern
hardware for such a price. So, a $1000 cost per day guy that is hacking
old hardware is extremally stupid, in my opinion. You can allow old
systems to still exists for centuries if you enjoy having antiques, but
you cannot require new software to full support ad vitam eternam your old
systems.
Gerard.
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