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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: New Computer... Date: 12 Jun 1996 09:12:45 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4pm1md$91v@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <4pg0u7$ljg_001@evt-pm1-ip9.halcyon.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E ameoba@halcyon.com (ameoba) wrote: > Well, since I'm going off to college next year, my family has > decided to buy me a new computer, on which I plan to install FreeBSD > (and Windows NT, just cause it will come in handy...) but the big > question is, which would be better, all other things equal: a P5 > w/SCSI or a P6 w/ EIDE drives? Either way, I'll be getting 32 megs > of ram, some PCI video card, a 10/100 PCI enthernet card, and a 2 > gig hard-drive. I know that SCSI is much better than IDE, > especially when multitasking, but the P6 is better than the P5 w/ 32 > bit software... Oh, what should I do? Well, though it doesn't strictly belong into this group (a NetBSD one), the actual system doesn't matter. Go for SCSI. You normally won't even half load your CPU at all (unless you plan to recompile the entire system over and over again :). As for the network card, avoid the 3Com. Pick some SMC DEC-21040-based card (they do also 10/100 combos). -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j