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[_] Re: Apple Powermac 8500/180 anyone ?

Seth sethb at cavesoft.net
Tue Jul 6 12:40:22 BST 2004

Hello Iain,

Tuesday, July 6, 2004, 12:30:54 PM, you wrote:

IH> Tuesday, July 6, 2004, 10:52:56 AM, Mike wrote:


>> that box is the equivalent to pII / 300+ . not a fast machine by todays
>> industry standards but still very common speed for home users.

IH> And that's the spec of our file server. It'd be useless running
IH> Windows,

Ppft.
Rubish.
I run 2k on a pII 266 with 512M RAM and it is solid as a rock.. file
server, ftpserver and torrent client... it was the router too untill
last month.
Up time in the order of months.
Old Dell Dimention.

IH> but unix, it's fine.
Yeah, runs windows fine too.. I presume it would run *nix better. :P

Oooh! And it runs warppipe for gamecube internet gaming. ;D


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Best regards,
Seth mailto:sethb at cavesoft.net