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From: tedmtoybox@agora.rdrop.com
Subject: Re: Pentium motherboard's with RAM expandable to 256MB
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In  <3uvgdp$62k@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>  fadorno@ix.netcom.com (Fred Adorno) writes:
| I like to build my own web server from the ground up.  I wish to start
| with a Pentium system with a potential of 256mb of ram.  It seems that
| the one's that do have that potential have dual processors which I
| read somewhere would not work well with FreeBSD.  Any sugguetions?
|  

If this is a web server for internal use, that's one thing.  However, if
this is going to be put up on the Internet, a single-processor Pentium
is quite enough to completely saturate a T1 link.  Your 128MB of RAM is
also way overkill.