On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 11:17, Russell Coker wrote: > So we firstly need to find a real slow arch which also supports 4 new large > IDE disks (remember that machines 3 years old tend not to have good support > for >32G drives).
That's primarily a BIOS problem, right? Does it matter for Linux? > > Then this same arch needs to be slow enough at CPU that it needs a compiler > cache, while being fast enough at doing disk IO and running the file system > to be able to offer a performance gain. DMA-based IDE is pretty fast. Nowhere near a good as SCSI, but you can't beat the price. > > Then of course there's the issue of how many M68K machines you could buy for > $1K. I think you've forgotten that space to host them costs money, too. Though you could get enough 68Ks to heat a large building for small sums of money ;-) > If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines > of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do > whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by > posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. LOL. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
