www.onsale.com that is selling UDB (166MHz)
It is a auction format, they have been going for around $400 without RAM or
Hard Drives. One other thing to note, they do use 2.5" laptop style
drives.
It's been my observation that these drives tend to be slow splindle speed
and small, I would go with a external
-Tony
tonys@bosnet.net
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> From: Brian Toscano <btoscano@shell.monmouth.com>
> To: axp-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Unidentified subject!
> Date: Monday, December 30, 1996 10:04 AM
>
>
>
> > > 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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