Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 02:11:51 -0500 (EST) From: Rob Misiak-Rishaw <rob@arpa.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: chat@freebsd.org, softweyr@xmission.com Subject: Re: Slowest machine [Was: TCP/IP ick!] Message-ID: <199612080711.CAA03370@vienna.arpa.com> In-Reply-To: <199612072115.WAA22796@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Dec 7, 96 10:15:44 pm"
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J Wunsch wrote ... > > Sigh, yep, the good ol' machines are dying away... My old 386/sx16 > scratchbox with its proud 6 MB of RAM has been upgraded recently to a > (donated) 386/dx40, and i had to add another couple of Meg of RAM > then... Of course, i've kept the old MDA, plus the (For Tests Only) > QIC-40 drive, plus the Wangtek 5150EQ QIC-24 drive, plus the old > AHA-1540*A*. ;-) Ah, forgot, there's a fine WD8003 ethernet card in > it... 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
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