100Mb NICs are faster than 10Mb ones and switches handle collisions of data packets more efficiently than hubs. Therefore, one should experience some improvement in performance even from a 386.
On 24-Jan-03 Angel E. Gabriel wrote: > How would this help... > > " 1) It only has slow ISA slots and AFAIK 100 Mb ISA NICs are hard > to > find. If you're using hubs then try replacing them with switches " > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:39 PM > To: LTSP discussion list > Subject: RE: [Ltsp-discuss] 386 as workstation > > > Hi Peter, > > According to my experience a 386, when used as a terminal, has the > following problematic areas: > > 1) It only has slow ISA slots and AFAIK 100 Mb ISA NICs are hard to > find. If you're using hubs then try replacing them with switches > > 2) Usually its graphics card contains 512 Kb of slow RAM. If you're > lucky that amount can be expanded to at most 1 Mb. Therefore, > you'll > never get beyond a resolution of 800x600 with an 8 bit colordepth > Unless of course you replace the graphics card with a more capable > one. Your choice will be limited though, because as in 1) you have > to > stick to the ISA type of cards > > Nevertheless, the above doesn't necessarily have to be a problem. > It > all depends on which kind of applications you want to execute. > Forget > about KDE, Gnome, office suits, Konqueror, Netscape and the like. > On > the other hand, in an Internet kiosk setup you might get away with > those 386s and, say, Opera or Phoenix > > Success > > > On 22-Jan-03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to run a 386/40 MHZ with 8 MB of RAM as workstation, >> connected via >> 10BaseT to the server. The trouble is that the whole boot process >> is during >> some 4 minutes. The download of the kernel works fine, >> "uncompressing >> Linux" is some half a Minute, then "Initializing RAM disk" also >> some 1/2-1 >> minute, the following tasks (building of the scripts) are som tens >> of >> seconds. On a Pentium90/32MB Ram the Boot process is during some >> 30 >> Seconds. Is there any way to make it faster? Is a 386 PRACTICALY >> useable as >> a workstation? >> >> Thanx, Peter >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - >> mail2web - Check your email from the web at >> http://mail2web.com/ >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! >> Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive >> scholarships >> Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and >> more >> www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> _ >> _ >> Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, >> goto: >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss >> For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > > -------------------------------------------- > Wouter DeBacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > 22-Jan-03 23:39:00 (SuSE Linux Xfmail) > -------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! > Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive > scholarships > Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and > more > www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp > ____________________________________________________________________ > _ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, > goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 > See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > ____________________________________________________________________ > _ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, > goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net -------------------------------------------- Wouter DeBacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 25-Jan-03 16:07:43 (SuSE Linux Xfmail) -------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
