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

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