Re: PR draft final-6 comments

Jon Hamilton (hamilton@pobox.com)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:04:40 -0600

In message <19990126173445.A4228@chive>, Alain Williams wrote:
} On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 01:57:05AM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
} > > It can also make older machines--even 386-based computers--useful
} > > again.
} >
} > That is stretching the truth. 386 hardware is not useful with
} > any operating system. The performance/watt is way too low.
} > That "cheap" 386 DNS server raises your air conditioning costs.
}
} Depends who you are.
}
} In a 3rd world country a 386 might be all that you can afford.

Even without that constraint, a 386 might be all you *need*. Using
a 400MHz dual CPU system as a DNS server might theoretically get you
better horsepower/watt, but if 99.7% of it is sitting unused, you're
still wasting money (and actually consuming _more_ power, not less).

-- 
   Jon Hamilton  
   hamilton@pobox.com




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