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Date:      Mon, 6 Mar 1995 08:05:40 +0930 (CST)
From:      Lucas James <jj@ldjpc.apana.org.au>
To:        Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com>
Cc:        Bryan McDade <mcdade@uwindsor.ca>, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: dual pentium
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950306080403.29110B-100000@ldjpc>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950305122407.528B-100000@haven.uniserve.com>

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On Sun, 5 Mar 1995, Tom Samplonius wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Mar 1995, Bryan McDade wrote:
> > Hi i was browsing your section on the web, i'm interested in running unix on
> > a dual pentium as a server and am looking for the cheapest way...
>   You must need some *serious* power.  wcarchive.cdrom.com handles 
> 400-500 ftp users on a 90mhz Pentium system without a problem.

	I would have thought that an ftp session would be network bound, 
rather than CPU bound.  If I were to try and do a couple of raytraced 
images, then I would want all the CPU power I can get (read afford :)


Lucas

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|Lucas James                    |       Rovering is Fun                 |
|jj@ldjpc.apana.org.au          |       Scouting is Fun                 |
|jj@apanix.apana.org.au         |       therefore ASL+R=Lots of Fun     |
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|Ass.Scout Ldr, Munno Para Troop, South Australia                       |
|Secretary, Para Rover Crew                                             |
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