Subject: Re: Systems for sale
From: Mac Mason (macmasta@ak.net)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2001 - 16:09:05 AKST
If you'll be willing to lend me one, I'll give it a shot. There's a
Debian/HP port, right?
:-P
~Mac~
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 14:26, James Bagley Jr. wrote:
>
> 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:
>
> >
> > 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:
> > >
> > [snip the list]
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Don't panic.
>
>
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