From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Apr 24 11:10:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA17855 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:10:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA17790; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:10:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00744; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:07:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804241807.LAA00744@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: dwilde1@ibm.net cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *** Real Action Item: SPECweb In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:01:56 PDT." <3540B774.CAB68C0C@partsnow.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:07:00 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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