[rescue] Suggestions for a *small form-factor* PC?

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sun Apr 21 13:30:59 CDT 2002


On April 21, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> True enough, but I'm just running lame-o FastEthernet over here.  So far,

  That's a problem that can be solved! :-)

> it's keeping up nicely.  I'm very impressed.  I ran an LX as a server (the
> original celestrion.net) in 1998 through 2000 and was stunned that a box
> with so little CPU power actually can maintain a steady full 10Mb/s stream
> of pregenerated data (through Apache, even) over Ethernet.  Damn, but Sun
> boxen can do I/O.

  Yes.  But it takes a LOT less than an LX to pump a 10Mbps stream.

       -Dave

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