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Paul Crowley <paul@hedonism.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Chris Green <chris@meteora.areti.com> writes:
>> 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?

> Well, you mention that the DX4/100 will be VL-Bus, where the P90 will
> surely be PCI; go for the PCI one!  Also, Samba's unlikely to need
> the FPU... and I think a Pentium should get more done per clock cycle.

No, they're both VL-bus.  Most of the NexGen P90 chips were sold on
the VL-bus board I think.

>> 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.

> Choice between somewhat faster disks and significantly larger disks
> (larger for a given outlay, that is).  I'd need to know more about
> your needs to say more.  Bear in mind that Linux busy-waits on IDE but
> not on SCSI requests, so it can make full use of SCSI in a way that I
> don't think certain other operating systems can; but you'll always
> have less disk space than you would have done if you'd gone for EIDE.

These are disks I already have, either a 1.7Gb EIDE or a 1Bg and a
540Mb SCSI, very little difference in the amount of space.

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