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From: burgess@cynjut.infonet.net (Dave Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Best platform for INN server?
Date: 6 Mar 1995 17:23:25 -0600
Organization: Configuration Management Svcs, Inc.
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Message-ID: <3jg5hd$du@cynjut.infonet.net>
References: <199503020229.SAA11325@kitana.org> <MICHAELV.95Mar2212851@mindbender.headcandy.com> <3j7q8j$aj2@cynjut.infonet.net> <MICHAELV.95Mar3212356@mindbender.headcandy.com>
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In article <MICHAELV.95Mar3212356@mindbender.headcandy.com>,
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:
}In article <3j7q8j$aj2@cynjut.infonet.net> burgess@cynjut.infonet.net (Dave Burgess) writes:
}
} In article <MICHAELV.95Mar2212851@mindbender.headcandy.com>,
} Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:
}
} }In article <3j657b$j2d@sundog.tiac.net> rmk@tiac.net (Rick Kelly) writes:
}
} } Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote:
}
} } : In article <199503020229.SAA11325@kitana.org> sysop@kitana.org (JL Gomez) writes:
}
} } : I'm happily running a 2GB newspool server running with 16MB of RAM using
} } : INN.
} } : I can say that Linux's disk cache/buffer strategy does help matters. :)
}
} } : Compared to what?
}
} } Apple PRODOS.
}
} }No way, you heretic! I won't believe it until you supply hard
} }numbers. Now, where did I leave my Apple III Business Basic boot
} }floppy...
}
} Look out Mike, he has a Business BASIC disk!!!
} Here, hide behind this 8" disk subsystem and cover me; I'm going to the
} Cromemco 5Meg hard drive. That ought to scare him away!
}
}Chuck one of these Corvus drives at him! If it doesn't stop him, it
}should at least break some bones.
}
Right, but these Cromemco drives are so big they have 110VAC fans on
'em. Chuck the Corvus drives at him from behind the Cromemco. We'll be
safe unless he has an Armor Piercing Floppy ejector!
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