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

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

> > True enough, but I'm just running lame-o FastEthernet over here.  So far,
> 
>   That's a problem that can be solved! :-)

Heh.  I just switched -to- FastEthernet yesterday.  I rescued a 3Com
SuperStack II 3000.  Aside from being louder than the window-unit A/C in
here, it's nice equipment.

And, if you think that's bad, I just upgraded from 10base2 to 10baseT not
four months ago.

> > 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.

Part of the reason I was impressed was that it was also the first Sun
box I'd actually owned.  Everything else was a PC.  So, my vision was
skewed.  Still is, I suppose, but that's a good thing in a programmer--I
don't expect too much out of the hardware I'm coding against, so I try to
generate lightweight code.

--Jonathan