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Article #84Re: A 486 w/ Linux
From: Jon Plews
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 00:00
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Chris Green <chris@meteora.areti.com> wrote in article <68vjcd$d4v$1@meteora.areti.com>... > On a related subject I have to decide between a 486DX4/100 and a > NexGen P90 (no FPU) for setting up a RedHat Linux system. It's main > function will be as a file server running Samba. > > Which will be better the 486DX/100 or the NexGen? > > Also I have a choice of SCSI or IDE disks, SCSI will probably be a > 2742 controller (VL-bus), again which will be better? I am leaning > towards SCSI but I'm not totally convinced. > > The system won't run X and does no dial-up, PPP or anything like that. > Just an SMB server and maybe some TCP/IP networking (Web server, > telnet into it, FTP, etc.). > > -- > Chris Green (chris@dappy.com) > Home: chris@isbd.demon.co.uk Work: cgreen@bcs.org.uk > WWW: http://www.isbd.co.uk/ > NexGen & SCSI. Jon.
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