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From: davidsen@glacial.tmr.com (Wm. E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: minimum system config?
Date: 4 Nov 1996 15:16:16 -0500
Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
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In article <54rk5e$bec@hydaspes.if.org>,
nathan wagner <nw@hydaspes.if.org> wrote:

| As a practical minimal email server for a low traffic situation, i'd
| say get 8 MB memory, a 386 or 486 box (you won't need much cpu for what you
| are doing, so the processor doesn't matter too much), and a network card.
| Disks are pretty cheap, you may even be able to find someone who will give
| you one, depending on who you know (there are lots of homeless 40 MB ide
| drives out there, if you know where to look).

Amen, I've been giving old 300M ESDI drives to the needy, since full
height drives are not high demand.
-- 
Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward.
	Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) consultant/director
TMR does UNIX and other systems stuff, some real time, network and
system admin, security, C and other good stuff.