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Brian Toscano (btoscano@shell.monmouth.com)
Mon, 30 Dec 1996 10:04:28 -0500 (EST)

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> > I'm looking at some of these DEC UDB/Multia boxes that are forsale both
> > 166 and 233 MHz. In particular, a 233MHz Model #VX42A-F2 with 24M RAM,
> > 510M hard disk that ships with NT.
>
> > If anyone could offer any helpful hints or suggestions, please let me know.
> >
> > I'm especially curious about the stability of the kernel and how well it
> > would work as a light-use print server and internet gateway. What is the
> > performance like comparable to a Pentium system or a SPARC system?
>
> I own the 233Mhz with 56MB RAM (everything else stock) and it's prolly
> equivalent to a P100. Before the RAM upgrade, it was deathly slow. I also
> think that the drive in the UDB is deathly slow, so I chose to run most apps
> (like X) over NFS rather than off the drive, which also improved things a bit.
>

It seemed that the SPEC marks of an Alpha 233 with 512KB cache put it at
about 1.8x faster than a P90. Anybody know how long it takes to compile
a 2.0.27 kernel?

Seemed to me like they are using a laptop hard drive with SCSI interface...

If the machine is setup for NT, do I need to change the hardware firmware
for it to run Linux?

Thanks,
Brian Toscano
btoscano@monmouth.net

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