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From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Subject: Re: Bandwidth..
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At 12:07 PM 12/30/96 -0700, you wrote:
>dennis wrote:
>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>        snip
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>> I dont think that anyone would recommend a '386 for anything nowadays
>> (with '486-100s with on-board PCI IDE at about $100.)....I was talking
>> much more about the '486 or 100Mhz Pentium vs the higher end
>> stuff than obsoleted equipment like '386.
>> 
>> Dennis
>
>I can think of a great use for 386 equipment. Find yourself a sharp
>kid, who can't afford a 'puter.  Give it to him/her. Invest a bit of
>time with the basics, and watch them grow.  Worth many times more
>than the cost of the 'puter. 

I'll spend the extra $50. on the '486-100...he'll learn twice as fast!

:-)

Dennis
>
>As for a web server, a 486 133 can handle a fair amount of traffic, even
>over a T1, without performance problems.  If you are *really* on a
>budget, this is a good starting point. By the time you need more CPU,
>you can afford it.
>

I think that this is highly dependent on what you are doing. If you have a lot
of piggish, poorly-written CGI scripts the requirements are much greater than
if you are just putting up direct hit pages.

Dennis