RE: RFC - Survey (not sales!)
Wow, and I thought my situation was bad. HPUX 10.20 K200 4 way @ 100MHz each 768MB memory A scattering of 2G and 4G hard drives (Can't complain too much . . . we're starting an install on a L2000 ( 2*440MHz ) system with 54G mirrored for the DB ( 6 9G drives). BTW, you actually did meaningful work on the below-mentioned box, Brett?? -----Original Message----- From: Brett Geer [mailto:brett@brabys.co.za] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 2:22 AM To: William Rice Cc: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: RFC - Survey (not sales!) I thnk a new category 'Bravery Level' should be added. Ok, lets see someone beat this. NT 3.51 Workstation 386dx-40 5MB ram 2x 100mb hdd's The machine had no case. Don't anyone say NT 4.0 since the initial release would not install on less than 12MB of ram. we tried. brett William Rice wrote: > > In article <3a40aa73.11758998@News.CIS.DFN.DE>, > obnoxio@hotmail.com (Obnoxio The Clown) wrote: > > In the year of Our Lord Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:08:05 +0200, Brett Geer > > <brett@brabys.co.za> broke a vow of silence to utter: > > > > > > > >> I only run NT on my laptop, and I'm signed up to a campaign in the > company > > >> to allow field staff to run Linux and VMWare. > > >> > > >> 10 is really S80/V-class/E10K/O2000 territory. I'd rate this place > about a > > >> 7. > > > > > >I think we'll add another level (11) ... showoff level. > > > > > >We've seen the people here with > 8 processors, more gb of ram than > > >the rest of us have disk space. Disk cache hardware with more ram on > it > > >than my machine has for the system. > > > > My last site was: > > > > 1x Sun E6500, 12 CPUs, 4GB RAM (HDR primary and transaction server) > > 1x Sun E4500, 10 CPUs, 4GB RAM (HDR secondary and query only server) > > 26x Compaq NT, 4 CPUs, 4GB RAM (web servers) > > > > Also about 3 E4500's as dev and test boxes, plus more 450's than you > can shake a > > stick at. > > > > I'd definitely rate them an 11. :-) > > > > > > So where would Linux on a Cyrix 333 with 7.30 UC? 32 MB of RAM put me? > 1 4 GB hard drive > > Will > > Sent via Deja.com > http://www.deja.com/ -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett's 10th law of UNIX administration... rm is forever ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett Geer - UNIX Admin/Analyst/Programmer - Intratex Holdings. Tel. +27 31 717 4000 Direct. +27 31 717 4146 Fax. +27 31 717 4001 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The little voices are talking to me again, telling me to reach for a keyboard and type rm -rf /* last week they had me rm -rf `echo $MANPATH | sed 's/:/ /g'` now I fear I have no answers -----------------------------------------------------------------