Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 15:10:47 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>, sreid@edmbbs.iceonline.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware for ISP / WWW server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951209150845.23784B-100000@sasami> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951209111123.17129D-100000@haven.uniserve.com>
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On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Tom Samplonius wrote: > On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Joe Greco wrote: > > around $200, 16MB of RAM for about $500, and a 16 port BocaBoard for about > > $250, you can make a really reasonable terminal server quite easily. > The problem is, is that PC serial hardware will never give you > performance of a terminal server. Actually, I don't mind paying for a plug in solution that someone else gets to do tech support for. Livingston tech support is pretty damn good. I think that the cost/performance factor may be in favor of the FreeBSD box though. (Of course, I'm young and have much to learn so I could be wrong.) | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|
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