On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 02:58:38PM -0400, scott wrote: > I believe it was mentioned aways back in the message stream, but perhaps > it's worth reconsidering at this juncture... > > Keep the low emi/rfi 386 machine user-proximity but convert it to an X > server with the more capable X client (app server) machine farther away.
Sure that suggestion was made. Currently, the X server is my Athlon64 and is 60 feet away from my wife and its still too close. I have been given a dual P-133 Tyan board which will become the application/file/whatever server and we'll see how close to it my wife can be once I get it set up in a good steel case (I'm looking at addtronics steel cases since this board is Baby-AT). I'll save the Athlon box for things that only it can do conveniently (editing or retouching picture, watching DVDs, graphical web-browsing). Note that none of my old boxes are low enough in RAM to need a custom kernel. The Tyan board will take a max of 512 MB (8 x 64 MB EDO ECC SIMMS) once I get them. My IBM 486 takes 4 x 32 MB once I get them. The biggest issue is boot drives: I may be using CF cards for boot and then adding a scsi card to the Tyan and use SCSI drives for the data archive. Doug.
