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From: michael.roy@blue-world.net (Michael Roy)
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Subject: Re: Hardware Advice
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 22:08:03 GMT
Organization: Blue World IT Consulting Inc.
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Mitayai <mitayai@io.org> wrote:


>Heya!

>I'm looking for some advice on building a generic system that will run 
>under all of the following: BSDI, NetBSD, Linux, OS2, WinNT, Win95, and 
>Win3.11. They need to be inexpensive yet efficient.

>If anyone has any info or advice on compatibility, prices, suppliers, 
>etc, please give me a response. If you are interested, for your own 
>reasons, in seeing either the finished product of my research or even 
>updated progress reports, just let me know and i'll bounce it as 
>appropriate. 

>If you reply to this, please reply to *only* me via email and ill forward 
>it to those interested.


>Ok, here we go:

>1) Intel 486 DX2/66 CPU, Heat sink, CPU fan, ASUS PCI motherboard, 
>	128K/256K Cache, 72 pin SIMM slots, onboard IO (16550)

>2) 4/8/16/32 Meg SIMMs, 72pin (16 Meg Minimum per machine)

>3) Apdaptec SCSI controller, ISA 1542/PCI 2940 (may be on-board)

>4) SMC Ethernet 16C/16T

>5) Quantum SCSI 540 Meg Hard Drive

>6) 3-1/2" Floppy (controller on-board)

>7) Diamond Stealth PCI graphics card, 1Meg/2/Meg

>8) 3-Button Mouse ,Serial/Bus card (serial may be on-board)

>9) Supermini Tower case with Powersupply

>10) NI VGA Monitor, 14"/15"

>11) 101-key keyboard

>Any help would be appreciated.

>-Mit
>mitayai@io.org
>---
>*** Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe, mitayai@io.org, Internex Online ***

Get 32-48Mb of memory.
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