Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:52:02 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: james@miller.cs.uwm.edu.erry@lambert.org.current@FreeBSD.ORG.hsu@freefall.freebsd.org (Jim Lowe) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, terry@lambert.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hsu@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: To pick a (perl) fight! Message-ID: <199603142052.OAA22438@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199603142024.OAA13446@miller.cs.uwm.edu> from "Jim Lowe" at Mar 14, 96 02:24:43 pm
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> > > This may shock you, but I don't own a printer (I probably personally > > > own more computers than 95% of the people on the list, if they don't > > > count their video equipment, ovens, or bread machines. 8-)). > > > > Well just how many would that be? Working off my last resource allocation > > chart, I've got... hm. 7 routers.. 6 servers.. 3 term servers.. 12 general > > purpose.. probably others.. that's something like 28. > > Forget these Apples to Suns comparisions, > I think the real question would be what are your > telephone (communications) and electric bill MRC > costs :-). About $1400 for telecom and $175 for electric, IIRC. > I know someone running a Vax 780 :-). Ok, that's impressive... I might make a minor dent if I actually powered up my two Sun 3/260's... Sun 3/260 9A Sun Disk Ped. 12A Sun 3/260 9A CGR Disk Ped. 14A --- 44A Of course the easier way to make a dent would be to push either the VAX or the 3/260's out a seventh floor window somewhere. I can't justify running the 3/260's anymore, with 8 MIPS and 2GB of disk between them, at 5400 watts, I could probably measure their operational cost in dollars per hour ... at 12c/kwh (no idea what current rate is) that would be 65c/hour.. or to put it another way, I could buy myself 2GB and a cheap 8+++ MIPS PC for what it would cost to run them for two months. ;-) > When you have to upgrade your household electrical > service to justify your hobby -- then you really > have a reason to grunt :-). Hey, don't laugh, it actually happened the last place I had Solaria at. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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