Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:07:00 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: dwilde1@ibm.net Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *** Real Action Item: SPECweb Message-ID: <199804241807.LAA00744@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:01:56 PDT." <3540B774.CAB68C0C@partsnow.com>
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> I have spoken to several of my lower level sal> Once we have the system spec'd, I have no doubt I can get hardware, because it's > very obvious that this will be an enormous bonanza for all major corporate > sponsors. - Dual 400MHz PII's (I think this will finally pull ahead of the 1M cache 233MHz P6'en). - A BX-based board with as much memory as the PII's will cache. - All of the OS, and if possible all of the web data in MFS. This may involve the biggest, nastiest PicoBSD config you can imagine. - If it won't all work in an MFS, a DPT controller and a small farm of 10000rpm fibrechannel disks. Otherwise, the disk is irrelevant. - No swap. Then talk to the various ATM and gigabit networking people that are playing with FreeBSD. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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