From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 8 00:30:19 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id AAA01932 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 00:30:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from csd.cs.technion.ac.il (csd.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id AAA01892 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 00:29:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by csd.cs.technion.ac.il (8.6.11/8.6.10) id KAA12495; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 10:21:19 +0200 Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 10:21:19 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron X-Sender: nadav@csd To: Rob Misiak-Rishaw cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, chat@freebsd.org, softweyr@xmission.com Subject: Re: Slowest machine [Was: TCP/IP ick!] In-Reply-To: <199612080711.CAA03370@vienna.arpa.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Rob Misiak-Rishaw wrote: > A couple months ago, a friend of mine decided that he wanted to have > the slowest machine on the internet, and set up his old Sun 2/120 :) > Average ping time from the ethernet is 120ms. The 2/120 takes up > roughly half as much power as the rest of the machines on the entire LAN do > combined :) > > The slowest machine that I have at my house, besides the Windows machine :) > is a Sun 3/60. It has 20MB RAM in it (had to use 20 1 meg SIMMs!), and it > makes more noise than my microwave oven. I'm not planning on replacing > it any time soon, though. People collect old stamps, old coins, old > furniture... why not old computers? ;) > > Rob > > Bringing Suns into the picture, I'm writing this on a Sun386i with 16MB. I guess the CS department here at the Technion can berak many "slowest on the Internet" records. I think there must be about a hundred of those Suns here, and they are the work horses for us graduate students for things like email and LaTeX. Nadav