Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 10:21:19 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.technion.ac.il> To: Rob Misiak-Rishaw <rob@arpa.com> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, chat@freebsd.org, softweyr@xmission.com Subject: Re: Slowest machine [Was: TCP/IP ick!] Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.91-heb-2.04.961208101836.12072B-100000@cs.technion.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <199612080711.CAA03370@vienna.arpa.com>
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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. Nadavhome | help
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