Re: 10 year old machines are slow (was: A hypervisor for a headless server?)

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Bret Busby wrote: 
> 
> Whoever posted the message to which the above message is a reply, is showing
> a lack of knowledge of computers; the "speed" of a computer, involves more
> components than simply the CPU - an i9 with 2GB of RAM, will probably not be
> as "fast" as in i3 with 32GB of RAM.


The context of the discussion is that there is a specific
feature -- virtualization support -- which means that for people
running VMs, an old computer produced with that feature is much
faster than its twin produced six months earlier.

Thanks for telling me that I lack knowledge of computers. I
shall keep that in mind.

-dsr-