Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Dec 1998 14:24:16 +0100 | From | ralf@uni-kobl ... | Subject | Re: Swap Cache |
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On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 01:46:02PM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > I put together a nice machine for $300 this weekend. It is > > all undestructible second-hand stuff. A good 15" monitor > > ($100) and $200 spent on a nice&silent server box with a > > 486/66 and 2 SCSI disks of 540 MB each. I will install the > > CD-ROM later today (when I get the brackets) and the network > > will probably laid out this week too... > > > > This machine starts the GIMP faster than _any_ of those > > el-cheapo 300MHz boxes I've ever seen! > > I remember a i386/40 "Novell server certified" machine that just ran > circles around a (then state-of-the-art) i486/100 clone. > > [...] > > > We can avoid it. Buy a balanced system. > > Very true.
Reminds me of those Russian guys that currently rip some of my Linux/MIPS benchmarks apart. They've got just a 25MHz R3000 variant. But all SRAM ...
Ralf
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