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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: seeking advice, please
Date: 6 Nov 1995 08:45:39 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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In article <f42_9511041206@caamora.caamora.com.au>,
Jonathan Michaels <jmichaels@caamora.caamora.com.au> wrote:
>Hello All!
>
>my pair of (venerably) old dos boxes have maintained a dos to fidonet and
>provided a uucp feed for a dozen or so clients for well over two years now and
>i think its about time to upgrade the operating system as well as the hardware.
>as my client base is slowly expanding and the dos solution is being overun by
>the inherant weakness of constantly using the wrong tools for the job.
yeah
I was just wondering abuot that..
Is there a unix version of Fidonet??
>
>in an effort to correct this situation i plan to use freebsd 2.1.0-release and
>my question concerns the i/o cards that i will be using and some of the
>specified hardware,
ok let's go through them one by one
>
>buslogic kt-946c, busmaster, fast scsi, pci
works for me, but there are stories that the newest firmware doesn't
work right.. get a guarentee that you can get older firmware if the stuff
it comes with fails..
>stb velocity 64v (4 mb edo vram
no idea, rod?
EDO memory is not a great win on some motherboards
>accton pci ethernet (rg45+bnc)
er, does it look like something we have a driver for?
>sony cdu76s quad spin scsi cdrom drive
sony tend to not support the SCSI-2 audio commands
toshiba tend to be a bit more flexible, and support SCSI-2 by-the-book
>sony 2.88 mb 3.5 inch floppy disk drive
we'll unly use them as 1.44 I think.
>fujitsu 2.1 gig 10 ms scsi hard disk
probably ok, but make sure the cooling is good in the box.
>
>what sort of expericences (good+bad) has this community regarding any of the
>above items either singely or as combinations.
>
>i will be using some sort of noname pentium 90 clone with 32 mb of dram what
>are the real advantages, if any, of upgrading this to 64 mb ?
depends on what the users are doing....
32Mb is enuogh for most NON-X applications to run for about 10 users
as ling as they're not doing "make world"
>
>regards, and thanks in advance.
>
>i can also be reached, jmichaels@caamora.com.au
>
>Jonathan
>
>ps, i am a disabled person and it is difficult for me to use the keyoard and
>uppercase characters on the screen confuse my vision somewhat, this is why most
>of my posts are usually devoid of uppercase characters.
no worries!
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