From owner-freebsd-isp Fri May 17 05:49:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA13815 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 17 May 1996 05:49:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isgate.is (isgate.is [193.4.58.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA13795; Fri, 17 May 1996 05:49:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hummer.islandia.is by isgate.is (8.7.5-M/ISnet/14-10-91); Fri, 17 May 1996 12:49:15 GMT Received: from hummer.islandia.is by hummer.islandia.is (8.6.12/ISnet/12-09-94); Fri, 17 May 1996 12:35:05 GMT Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 12:35:05 +0000 (GMT) From: "Gestur A. Grjetarsson" To: "Aaron D. Gifford" cc: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What think ye of this? In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960515180428.009e7378@infowest.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Try http://www.infinet.com/~venkat On Wed, 15 May 1996, Aaron D. Gifford wrote: > Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 12:04:28 -0600 > From: Aaron D. Gifford > To: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org > Subject: What think ye of this? > > Hola, > > Any of you FreeBSD-ers care to tell me where I might find some good prices > on a system like I describe below? Any of you have any comments, > suggestions, bewares, avoids, or recommends? My only real requirements are > that the system be FAST and RELIABLE, and its hardware has got to be > supported in FreeBSD-Stable. > > CPU: Pentium 166 OR PentiumPro 200 > (Are any of the "fixed" PPro200 motherboards on the > market yet? I'd REALLY like to go PPro200 if possible) > Memory: 128MB RAM (What options are there here? > What gives the best performance? EDO? > What size cache? 512K, 256K, 1MB? > Sync. Pipeline Burst?) > Motherboard: As many PCI slots as possible, good, fast, reliable > chipsets, good PCI bus throughput, needs to support > LOTS o' RAM and have free slots so I can bump up to > at LEAST 256MB. > Case/Power: I want a spacious tower with FANS, FANS, FANS to keep down > the heat. A reliable power supply with plenty 'o extra > capacity will do. > I/O: Two decent high-speed (115200) serial ports will do me fine. > SCSI Controller: One Adaptec 2940UW (PCI) (Should I go Ultra, or just Wide?) > Hard Drives: Two 4-Gig 7200 RPM high-performance SCSI Fast&Wide/Ultra > HD's should get me by to start with (What's fast and > RELIABLE? Quantum? Seagate Barracuda?) > CD-ROM: Almost any good 6x SCSI CD-ROM that'll talk to me SCSI > controller > Video: I really don't care so long as it doesn't break anything, > since I'll likely never use anything but text mode. > Mouse: Not required > Keyboard: Almost anything that isn't going to break and that has > a decent feel > Network: One PCI 100Mb/10Mb ethernet controller (Opinions on the > 3Com, SMC, and other choices would be helpful!) > > Again, thanks for ANY and ALL comments! > > Sincerely, > Aaron Gifford > > --=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=-- > Aaron D. Gifford InfoWest, 1845 W. Sunset Blvd, St. George, UT 84770 > InfoWest Networking Phone: (801) 674-0165 FAX: (801) 673-9734 > Visit InfoWest at: "http://www.infowest.com/" > ICBM: 37.07847 N, 113.57858 W > "Southern Utah's Finest Network Connection" > --=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=-- > > Med kvedju Sincerely -------------------------------------------------- Gestur A. Grjetarsson gestur@islandia.is kerfisstjori islandia.is sysadmin islandia.is http://www.islandia.is/~gestur http://www.islandia.is/misc/skvopn There are only three kind of people in the world ! Those who know how to count, and those who don't !