On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 18:43 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Sun, 26.04.09 11:15, Callum Lerwick (seg(a)haxxed.com) wrote:
> > Today we have MMX and SSE and similar CPU extensions. The very reason
> > we have them is to do signal processing with them. Such as
> > implementing mixing, volume adjustments, equalizers, and other filters
> > in them -- in high digital quality. Ironically even Creative sees that
> > and nowadays a lot of logic is actually in their Windows drivers, not
> > so much in their sound cards.
>
> And once again you go on and on about "modern" and "these days",
and are
> completely dismissive of "Right now" and "Yesterday".
Wow. So you are running your stuff on a CPU without SSE? I am impressed!
Well, I do have an Athlon 1.4gz machine. Thunderbird core, so no SSE. It
just so happens it's the "secondary" Windows XP box that's at the
center
of this controversy.
It has a Radeon 9800SE in it, and I use it to play World of Warcraft.
> No one but you cares. End users want what they use now and have
owned
> for years, to work and continue to work.
Uh, didn't we recently switch to i586 as minimal architecture of
Fedora?
Once again you are misdirecting the conversation. CPU's *are* an upgrade
treadmill. Cutting off CPUs (i386/i486) that are something like *15* or
more years old at this point isn't completely unreasonable. We are in
fact highly conservative in that we didn't just go i686+ five years ago,
like some wanted...