Housing collections

[Tony Duell]

> I'm with you.  The "ten year rule" is crap -- there, I've said it.  It's 
> not even enforced anyway, since people here would have no problem 
> talking about SGI Indigos or BeBoxen or DEC Alpha machines or similar 
> stuff, and that's all newer than 10 years old, or just barely.
> 
> I think the 10-year "rule", if there is to be one, should only apply to 
> wintel boxes.  I believe that's the spirit of the rule anyway.

Just out of curiousity, apart from obvious off-topic stuff (like 'please 
fix my modern Windows PC'), has the 10 year rule ever been strictly 
enforced? I think I've seen plenty of threads about machines that are 
strictly too new to be mentioned here, but which are interesting enough 
that nobody cares

-tony