[rescue] FYI eBay item#2060784552: Sun AXE-300 Motherboard (s !!!)

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, October 13, 2002, at 12:33 PM, Bill Bradford wrote:
> >> Question - could I saturate a 10 Mb/s connection serving static
> >> HTML/images off this box? <ducks and runs>
> >
> > Of course.  Like I said, one of these was mrbill.net/sunhelp.org
> > for over a year.  Worked GREAT.

>    I'm about 110% sure Lionel was joking there, Bill.  The list
> archives are thickly peppered with instances of my "you moron,
> you can saturate a 10MB ethernet with an SS2 with ease, why do
> you *need* a 1GHz clock rate!!" flames.

Yes - the <ducks and runs> was to take the place of a ;^)

I was just amused by the cache question - 256 KB vs. 2 MB...

Sorry Bill, thought the humor was obvious...

Lionel

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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976