On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Jeff F. Pummill wrote:
> I must agree with Dave, as we are all striving for the same thing...
>
> As much power for as little of price as can be had from a desktop system!
>
> SMP Linux fills this role very well, but the ability to purchase hardware
> for less that may be modified to run (in a stable manner) greatly enhances
> our efforts and makes for very interesting reading as well. Please resist
> the urge to complain about certain areas of the technology that may seem
> mundane or even foolhardy to you as they are very important and
> interesting to others.
>
> Jeff Pummill
>
Yes, but as with others here on this list, the time I would spend working on
a kludged together SMP system like this is worth far less than paying for
the system outright.
So, Dave, how many hours have you put into this so far? Was it worth the
number of hours spent vs. the money "saved"?
Right now the best bang for the buck is a PII 350. Grand total for a dual
processor board (100MHz bus) and the two processors was around $700. I
spent more than that on my first PPro 200 uniprocessor. So I ask again, is
it really worth the "savings"?
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