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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!news.tmr.com!news.tmr.com!not-for-mail From: davidsen@glacial.tmr.com (Wm. E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: minimum system config? Date: 4 Nov 1996 15:16:16 -0500 Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Lines: 17 Message-ID: <55liuh$bfu@glacial.tmr.com> References: <3270F930.7D55@eccosys.com> <54rk5e$bec@hydaspes.if.org> Reply-To: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) NNTP-Posting-Host: glacial.tmr.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.hardware:55464 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30601 In article <54rk5e$bec@hydaspes.if.org>, nathan wagner <nw@hydaspes.if.org> wrote: | As a practical minimal email server for a low traffic situation, i'd | say get 8 MB memory, a 386 or 486 box (you won't need much cpu for what you | are doing, so the processor doesn't matter too much), and a network card. | Disks are pretty cheap, you may even be able to find someone who will give | you one, depending on who you know (there are lots of homeless 40 MB ide | drives out there, if you know where to look). Amen, I've been giving old 300M ESDI drives to the needy, since full height drives are not high demand. -- Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward. Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) consultant/director TMR does UNIX and other systems stuff, some real time, network and system admin, security, C and other good stuff.