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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:7957 comp.windows.x.i386unix:6531 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!lclark!news.reed.edu!usenet.ee.pdx.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: If you were to assemble a new machine... Date: 14 Jan 1994 17:03:13 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 49 Message-ID: <2h6j8h$3ha@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1994Jan12.161313@unccsun.uncc.edu> <crt.758474839@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <crt.758474839@tiamat.umd.umich.edu>, Rob Shady <crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> wrote: >jlrobins@unccsun.uncc.edu (James Lee Robinson) writes: > >>If all of you experienced unix_on_intel_for_free people were to assemble >>a machine to run either FreeBSD or NetBSD and probably XFree86, what >>kind of machine would you put together. I am a fairly experienced unix > >My personal favorite that falls into this price range would be something >similar to the following: > >Pentium EISA/VLB Combo Motherboard w/1MB Cache $1500 >32MB RAM $ 960 >NEC 5FG Monitor $1200 >Adaptec 1742 Controller Card $ 250 >True IBM 101 Key Keyboard $ 50 >Seagate 9GB SCSI Drive $3500 >2 Toshiba 3401B CD-Rom Drives $ 720 >VGA Ultra Pro VLB w/4MB RAM $ 600 >WangDAT 4mm Tape Backup (2GB/4GB) $1000 > ===== > $9580 > Where do you shop, caused I'd like to find out where you are getting some of these prices from? 32MB ram for $960 L($30/mb is unheard of now, especially fast memory) 9GB for $3500. And, I'd bag the NEC monitor and get a Nanoa 550iw for around $1K. >Try a 486DX50 motherboard, and maybe a smaller hard drive.. Stay away from a 486DX50 unless you are absolutely certain of the manufacturer. I've heard of very few of them having fast enough secondary cache to work on multi-tasking systems. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me