[rescue] ELC questions

[Dave McGuire]

  That's a damn fine idea...either netbooted or with a small scsi box.
I did the latter with an SLC in about 1996; it did the job very well.

       -Dave

On March 30, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> Cool beans then I am thinking I will make a console machine out of it!
> 
> Mike N
> 
> On Saturday 30 March 2002 07:31 pm, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > On March 30, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> > > Just got an ELC, my first ever! Anyway, my understanding is this is like
> > > an SS1 built into a monocrome monitor. does it have internal disk? I see
> > > a SCSI port on the back but see no disk mountinf space. Will it boot from
> > > external disk?
> >
> >   No internal disk.  It's significantly faster than an SS1 but still
> > slower than an SS2.  The numbers, as I recall:
> >
> >   PROC    MIPS
> >   ----    ----
> >   SLC	  10.7
> >   SS1     14.3
> >   SS1+    18.7
> >   ELC     24.0
> >   SS2	  28.5
> >
> >   These are getting very fuzzy, but they're at least close.
> >
> >        -Dave
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