From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 29 16:19:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04389 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:19:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA04349 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:19:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-114.laker.net [208.0.233.14]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id TAA08171; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:18:49 -0400 Message-Id: <199809292318.TAA08171@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "William Woods" Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:15:18 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: This a decent system for FreeBSD? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:54:00 -0400 (EDT), James A. Mutter wrote: >> Dual socket 8 motherboard, Ultra-wide onboard SCSI, onboard 10/100 >> 2 Pentium Pro 150 cpu's As someone alluded to, but should have explicitly stated: Intel will soon discontinue production of the PentiumPro. I'd negotiate a lower price based on that. And if they won't go lower, I'd just find either a >300 MHz AMD-K6-2, or a multi-processor moboard using the PII. And if you do get the PPro, I'd keep an eye open for spares... Otherwise, a CPU failure would render the moboard useless... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message