>Hey, I have this IIcx here that I'd like to use as a file server running
>NetBSD. Anyone know how this would work? Would the IIcx be too slow?
>Right now it has a dead PRAM battery, so I can't use it at the moment, but I
>should be getting a new one soon...
Well, that depends on what you're used to. Given that even
quadras are pretty cheap these days, you might want to save the $5 or
$10 for the price of the PRAM battery and use it to buy a Quadra.
Also, you can get a Quadra with NetBSD-supported on-board Ethernet;
with the IIcx, you'll have to make sure that the card you use is
supported.
With a IIcx on a 10 megabit network, with a small number of
users sharing things like typically-sized MS Word documents, you'll
find that the network speed will tend to be the limiting factor.
Where the IIcx's slowness will really kill you is in
compiling packages. This is totally dependent on processor speed.
Then again, you won't have to do this all the time. But, really --
even on a Quadra 800, I found that some packages (along with their
prerequisites) took many, many hours to compile.
-Greg
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