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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ponderous.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Subject: Re: [NetBSD] Running on a 2Meg machine. Message-ID: <michaelv.758227427@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <2gpi0m$f5b@fw.novatel.ca> <1994Jan10.083325.9481@news.cs.indiana.edu> <DERAADT.94Jan10081443@newt.fsa.ca> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 18:43:47 GMT Lines: 36 In <DERAADT.94Jan10081443@newt.fsa.ca> deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes: >In article <1994Jan10.083325.9481@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Ingo Cyliax" <cyliax@cs.indiana.edu> writes: > >This is most definitely the "Timex-Sinclair approach to computing". > Yes, maybe someone has a Basic interpreter that will run under NetBSD ;-) > >It limped a little on the way up... > But, it's not all that bad if all you needed was a network'ed controller > of some sort, like a printer server. >As a printer server it might be kinda slow; lpd typically runs shell >scripts when printing a file, this might be a significant slowdown. >This might take some hacking. >Here's a few more ideas: >kerberos master? *chuckle* > seriously, i don't know how fast a kerberos server should be Actually, it would probably work fine as a kerberos master server. Kerberos isn't terribly demanding on a machine. Iowa State serves almost 15,000 users and over 700 workstations with two DECstation 2100's as the kerberos servers (these are old 12.5MHz MIPS R2k CPU machines). This at the same time the actual file and service servers are having to move up to DECstation 5000/260's and Alphas with multiple SCSI interfaces just to keep up with the demand. I think this would be a fine use for a 4meg or so ol' rusty 386 laying around collecting dust. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. VanLoon Project Vincent Systems Staff michaelv@iastate.edu Iowa State University Computation Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------