From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 30 13:25:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA00934 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 13:25:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA00904 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 13:25:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp-082.etinc.com (ppp-082.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA14857; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 16:22:47 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 16:22:47 -0500 Message-Id: <199601302122.QAA14857@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Joe Greco From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >As far as new boxes go - I probably wouldn't venture much lower than a >486DX4/120 (CPU ~= $100, MB ~= $100) unless I happened to get it for free. >You can't argue with the bang per buck figure. ;-) I like the DX/2-80s at $97. complete. Too many flakey DX4 MBs out there and youve got pleny of horsepower with 80MHZ to do routing and an occasional system build. db ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX