Subject: Re: Systems for sale
From: James Bagley Jr. (james@thelostnet.net)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2001 - 14:26:10 AKST
We have mostly HP hardware at my new job. Very impressive. The box under
my desk (one of the slower units we have) is a J210, which has two of the
same cpus that the C110 has plus some fancier I/O hardware. The newer
C3000 class machines *really* move. A single 500Mhz risc cpu... Many
times faster than the C180's.
Anyone ever tried running linux on these beasts?
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Tom wrote:
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> On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 arthur@corlissfamily.org wrote:
> > Okay, I'm finally getting around to freeing up some much needed space. Here's
> > what I have on tap:
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> [snip the list]
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> > If you're looking to get some experience with some commercial Unices, this is
> > a great way to do so. All of the OS'es are current, and while these boxes
> > aren't necessarily speed daemons, they're all prefectly good workstations.
> > RISC boxes are on average *much* faster than a comparable x86 chip at the same
> > clock rate. Plus, you'll get to see what real hardware is like with a finely
> > integrated OS. Modern PCs are still slapped-together kludges in comparison.
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> I'll second this one, especially with the HP C110. I have a C180, and in a
> *very rough* comparison (as in, "how fast do they crunch a SETI block?")
> the 180mhz HP of mine is roughly the same speed as a P3-700, while the
> nice shiny new 1.8G P4 at work feels maybe 2x-3x faster. That's it -
> they're quite impressive.
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-- Don't panic.
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