[rescue] A Question about Snap Servers

[Sheldon T. Hall]

Lionel Peterson says ...
> > From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
> > Sat, 31 Jul 2004 @ 09:13 -0700, Sheldon T. Hall said:
> >
> > > Well, yeah, but you're comparing current technology with 12-year-old
> > > technology.  There aren't too many computing arenas in which
> > > the 12-year-old
> > > technology is going to win out; MIPS/Watt certainly isn't
> > > going to be one.
> > > MIPS/retail$ is another.
> >
> > Also, how many 12-year old PCs are in active use?
>
> Are you talking the physical box, or the system design? ;^)
>
> (Couldn't resist... Seriously, what would a 12 year-old PC look
> like? Pentium? 64 Megs of RAM?)

Still '486 for the most part, 12 years ago.  Pentiums were just coming out.
I still have two DEC Pentium 60 boxes from early 1993:

	P-60 (with FP error)
	72 MB RAM (72-pin FPM parity)
	EISA bus
	Adaptec SCSI card
	1 - 1 GB SCSI drive (FH 5.25")
	3COM 10Base2 NIC
	basic VGA
	16 serial ports
	massive case
	SCO Unix
	$15,000

Those two machines still run fine, BTW.

-Shel