> AFAICT the RP-2430 has a 650MHz PA-8700. Not sure how it compares to my > Pentium III, but it's likely somewhat slower at least for non-FP
Actually, the SPEC results I find for CINT2000 for "similar" machines suggest that it's probably about as fast, so I think that with 2GB it should be definitely still usable. [ And who knows: maybe it can even be fitted with more than 2GB of RAM, since the 2GB info dates back to 2001. ] Stefan "dreaming of a modern machine with a 2.25MB L1 cache"