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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:7920 comp.windows.x.i386unix:6478 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: If you were to assemble a new machine... Date: 13 Jan 1994 20:03:14 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 40 Message-ID: <2h49e2$fde@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <1994Jan12.161313@unccsun.uncc.edu> <crt.758474839@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca In article <crt.758474839@tiamat.umd.umich.edu>, Rob Shady <crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> wrote: > >My personal favorite that falls into this price range would be something >similar to the following: > >Pentium EISA/VLB Combo Motherboard w/1MB Cache $1500 >32MB RAM $ 960 >NEC 5FG Monitor $1200 >Adaptec 1742 Controller Card $ 250 >True IBM 101 Key Keyboard $ 50 >Seagate 9GB SCSI Drive $3500 >2 Toshiba 3401B CD-Rom Drives $ 720 >VGA Ultra Pro VLB w/4MB RAM $ 600 >WangDAT 4mm Tape Backup (2GB/4GB) $1000 > ===== > $9580 actually, i really don't like the disk selection there. last i heard, there was a limit of 8 partitions on any given disk. that means, after you lose swap [let's be generous, and say it's 1gb], the c and d partitions for dos stuff you've still got to spread only 5 partitions with 8gb of space. that means quite a few partitions that are obscenely large. there are probably some perfromance impacts on this. i'd rather have a pile of smaller disks. marc 'em. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA Barney the Dinosaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More--