Hmmm,

I won't get too involved, but I would like to make a few comments............

What if it's a company who uses legacy things on 486 machines? Windows won't run on that anymore.
Errrrrr, yes it will.............not XP or Win2K but we are talking legacy APPLICATIONS, which are probably DOS/ASM anyways?.........they won't run...........nothing to do with the hardware (apart from ASM to some degree) This is all to do with the "computing experience" B/S........like they try to stop you loading stuff onto what they think is a "slow machine"?

And you can run the APPS on P4s with a suitable OS (Win98SE/ME and to some extent NT4.0...........remember there are 4 .bas apps in the Sys32 folder of NT4.0?..........now those are "quickbasic" and that shipped with DOS 5.0)

Now, those "486 legacy apps" won't run in a *nix environment............things were a lot different then, and *nix apps tended to run on RISC chips that peed all over intel stuff (and Cyrix.........don't think AMD were playing back then?) they were written for the kit.

So my point is I don't think that *nix gives better legacy support?