On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 00:01:42 +0100, Peter Hucker wrote:

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:47:32 GMT, ah wrote:

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:11:58 +0100, Peter Hucker wrote:

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:53:02 GMT, ah wrote:

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:56:06 +0100, Peter Hucker wrote:

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 02:39:18 GMT, ah wrote:

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:50:25 +0100, Peter Hucker wrote:

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:33:07 GMT, Dyno Mutt
wrote:

ah wrote in
pan.2004.09.14.23.49.40.316537@happy1:

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:22:12 +0000, Dyno Mutt wrote:

Mandrake dont like pentiums, pass it on...

o.k.

But, just in case someone asks, why?

Well nothing under 400MHz...its very picky...

And XP would be happy under 400MHz?

GUI isn't everything . . . but it sure helps.

For once I wasn't saying windows was any better, just that nothing is
happy under 400MHz.

I'm getting really ****ed off with how slow this dual Athlon MP 2800+
machine is. Will have to get the 64 bit ones soon.

Hold that wallet a bit until you're su

most "slowness" is because of the storage-bus bottleneck.

You could have 5 terabytes of storage accessible by a
liquid-nitrogen-cooled 14CPU system, but still get the responsiveness
of a 80386.

Of course, XP is a bottleneck in, and of, itself.

I removed the storage bottleneck. Four 250MB 7200rpm drives connected
to a £250 3ware 66MHz/64bit PCI RAID card. The processors can't
write data that fast!

Besides I have 2GB of RAM, soon to be 3GB.

Try SCSI 320.

I don't have THAT many credit cards. How much for a terrabyte of SCSI
disks?

Probably about £4,000
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ah