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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!night.primate.wisc.edu!tmpnews.crd.ge.com!news.crd.ge.com!rebecca!rpi!usenet From: curran@remove2mail.rpi.edu (Peter F. Curran) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: minimum system config? Date: 25 Oct 1996 18:21:20 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Lines: 26 Sender: curran@stu.rpi.edu (Peter F. Curran) Message-ID: <54r0f0$3sf@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <3270F930.7D55@eccosys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tigershark.stu.rpi.edu X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.hardware:54448 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:29944 In article <3270F930.7D55@eccosys.com>, David Moles <deivu@eccosys.com> writes: >Okay. I'm thinking of building an x86 'NIX box to act as an >apartment mail server and not much else. What's the cheapest >thing I can get away with? Assume that I can borrow a monitor >and keyboard from another box when necessary. What are the >absolute minumum hardware requirements? What would be the >next step or two up from that? > >--David You could get away with as little as a 386SX with no coprocessor on a real old ISA motherboard, with 4MB of RAM. Then you need case, pwr supply, probably around ~80MB disk, (which might need an ISA controller card). If you plan to use it as a server, you'd want a modem and a cheap ethernet card to connect it to the rest of your machines. Some of these components are out of date enough to be "had" for next to nothing. - Pete