Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > Do you always buy new cars? New homes?
Yes. And new PCs. > If you were tasked with going out and buying Windows server hardware > and you had a maximum of $200 to spend, you would be pretty stupid to > go down to Fry's and get one of their $199 on-sale computers when you > could go spend the $200 on a used HP server that cost $9000 when it > was new and has a full set of SCSI disks in it and probably a > tapedrive. Sure the HP server is slow - but in that environment the > reliability is more important than the speed. But at least I could be reasonably sure that Windows would be able to use the machine. I can't be that confident with other operating systems. -- Anthony _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
