On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:16:11PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 05:32:22PM -0800, Larry Price wrote: > >What I know, debian and netbsd ports are available; these are relatively > >muscular machines using a non-pc (risc) architecture. > > 9000s300? Those dudes are 68k based... It's the s700 workstations and > s800 business-class servers that had the HP-PA RISC CPUs in them. > > I guess it depends on what you mean by "muscular". The 380 was, I believe, > the last of the s300 machines and had a 50MHz 68040 CPU in it. They were > pretty hot machines back in the '80s, but 5 year old PCs pretty much kick > it's butt... > > If by "muscular" you mean "big and heavy and will give you a workout if you > have to move it", I'd have to agree. ;-)
I'm sure it still has enough power to act as say, a stateful packet filtering ethernet bridge. Much cooler on the geek tip than buying a packaged firewall, IMHO. Easier on the environment too :) http://www.blobulent.com/hp300/FAQ/rosspon/hp300faq.htm http://www.openbsd.org/hp300/hp300faq.html -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
