I don't diasagree with your main point, but PPro 180's for the right price
are still rather attractive. A dead technology, yes, but they still work.
PPro's seem to overclock well, I have a couple of 180's running fine at
233MHz in a box that I got for a song. Waiting 2:48.72 elapsed to build a
kernel is a fairly minor hardship and if it was one third of that, I
wouldn't be three times as happy or productive; besides, when I'm waiting
it is usually for swap or disk or network or inspiration, not for CPU.
On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> I love smp systems, but I also love optimizing cost-benefit, and it is
> very rare indeed that retail hardware on the edge of obsolescence is
> worth investing in.
I don't think of a computer system as an investment, I think of it more
like a commodity (e.g. orange juice) that has no residual value after it
has been used.
Ed Welbon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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