On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:46:26 -0000, in bit.listserv.ibm-main "David Wade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >"Shane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 21:01 -0500, Doug Fuerst wrote: >> > A 98 machine is generally 5-6 years old at this >> > point. That is junkheap time for a PC generally. I am getting annoyed at the speed compared with my wife's XP system but I am not yet aggravated enough to spend even the 500 Canadian it would cost me to upgrade. My system is now 7 years old and it is handling my e-mail and web-surfing at a tolerable performance rate. I suspect similar considerations are why many companies are running boxes from the various manufacturers of similar >> >> Only if you insist on putting mickey mouse operating systems on it. >> Would do fine as a Linux firewall I would venture. >> > >Only for a home firewall. Our corperate firewalls are fairly fast modern >SPARC box and under attack conditions the CPU's max out. >As for desktop use, PCs of this age typically have 4 or 6 gig drives. Try >loading a modern Linux on that with X support, and one of those snazzy >windows look a like desktops and it probably won't fit. on the hard drive. >It will also run like a dog as its probably only 64 megs of RAM... Having >used a fast 3Gig pentium with XP, I hate it when I need to use the old 1gig >box.. > Heck, I find my wife's 512 meg, 2.4 gigahertz Pentium 4 system plenty fast. Now if I could only get them to extend high-speed Internet out my rural road. > >> Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
