[geeks] Old hardware cut-off

[Joshua Boyd]

And it takes enough power that it is worth taking into consideration.

On February 17, 2014 1:10:28 AM EST, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net> wrote:
>On 02/17/14 00:01, Andrew Jones wrote:
>> Watching people fight about awful embedded chips just kills me.  In 
>> 2014, a $20 Netra X1 is still a "fast enough" UNIX box with plenty of
>
>> RAM.  It eats 20-40W.  If you are sweating electrical costs for less 
>> power than a light bulb, power isn't the real problem.
>
>Hmmmmmmm.  You do raise a good point ... but is there any way to get
>four Ethernet interfaces into one?  I see no expansion slot at all in
>the X1.
>
>Now, a Netra T1 might work, but it's only going to have a single 32-bit
>PCI 1.0 slot.  And I'd have to find SCSI disks for it.
>
>
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