On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, 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 think I meant 'muscular for their time' when you can put together a 1Ghz cpu,512Mb ram,40G hd system for less than $1000 US these things are looking pretty sad, apparently they spent much of the past decade being the mailservers for some ISP though, so they probably aren't completely useless. > Sean > -- > Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean > it's useless. -- T. Edison > Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python >
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