Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PR draft final-6 comments | Date | Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:04:40 -0600 | From | Jon Hamilton <> |
| |
In message <19990126173445.A4228@chive>, Alain Williams wrote: } On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 01:57:05AM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: } > > It can also make older machines--even 386-based computers--useful } > > again. } > } > That is stretching the truth. 386 hardware is not useful with } > any operating system. The performance/watt is way too low. } > That "cheap" 386 DNS server raises your air conditioning costs. } } Depends who you are. } } In a 3rd world country a 386 might be all that you can afford.
Even without that constraint, a 386 might be all you *need*. Using a 400MHz dual CPU system as a DNS server might theoretically get you better horsepower/watt, but if 99.7% of it is sitting unused, you're still wasting money (and actually consuming _more_ power, not less).
-- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |