Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 02:52:02 -0700 From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) To: core@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: this could sort of be of interest to us, too.. Message-ID: <199504180952.CAA13030@violet.berkeley.edu>
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From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Subject: WEB: BSD/OS hardware information archive
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 01:41:37 GMT
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I am often asked to recommend a high performance machine for BSD/OS. Uses
for this kind of beast include:
* A timeshare system for a bunch of X Terminals (or PCs or Macs).
* An NFS file server (data <EM>will</EM> come out of it at Ethernet speed).
* An Internet information server (dns, http, ftp, gopher, veronica).
* An Internet data processor (nntp, smtp, uucp).
* An Internet terminal server (slip, ppp, bbs).
* An Internet gateway and possibly firewall (bgp4, rip{,2}, hello).
* An X workstation (maybe with a multi-screen display).
* A mix of the above if you can only afford one big host.
This text assumes the use of BSD/OS 2.0, and some of the hardware I
recommend does not work on other systems or on early versions of BSD/OS.
Caveat emptor.
The information is available on the Web at the following URL:
http://www.vix.com/pc-hw/bsd-os-hwconfig.html
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