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
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