On Friday 14 October 2005 21:45, Marty wrote: > Graham Smith wrote: > > The problem is there is a world of difference between doing up and old > > car as a hobby and trying to use a 486 as a desktop machine. > > You're ignoring the uses in between those two extremes. For example, why > use a modern machine, which uses 3 or 4 times the power, just for a > firewall or backup server?
As you will see in an earlier post I had mentioned using one of the 486's as a firewall. I hadn't thought of using it as a backup server but that's a good idea. Having said that though, personally, I would use the PII as the firewall, backup, file server etc etc. The new fast machine as the family desktop and ditch the other two. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
