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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: If you were to assemble a new machine...
Date: 14 Jan 1994 17:03:13 GMT
Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT
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In article <crt.758474839@tiamat.umd.umich.edu>,
Rob Shady <crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> wrote:
>jlrobins@unccsun.uncc.edu (James Lee Robinson) writes:
>
>>If all of you experienced unix_on_intel_for_free people were to assemble
>>a machine to run either FreeBSD or NetBSD and probably XFree86, what 
>>kind of machine would you put together. I am a fairly experienced unix
>
>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
>

Where do you shop, caused I'd like to find out where you are getting some of
these prices from?

32MB ram for $960 L($30/mb is unheard of now, especially fast memory)

9GB for $3500.

And, I'd bag the NEC monitor and get a Nanoa 550iw for around $1K.

>Try a 486DX50 motherboard, and maybe a smaller hard drive.. 

Stay away from a 486DX50 unless you are absolutely certain of the
manufacturer.

I've heard of very few of them having fast enough secondary cache to
work on multi-tasking systems.


Nate

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