RE: Suggestions for dual processor

2001-01-15 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
I suggest starting from this and add what you want. Have fun! Brooks > -Original Message- > From: Jan Ulrich Hasecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 7:35 AM > To: Debian User Mailingliste > Subject: Suggestions for dual processor > > &

Re: Suggestions for dual processor

2001-01-14 Thread Nate Amsden
Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > > Hi Debians! > > I want to buy a new computer. My old one is a five year old P100. > > I want to set up a little debian network: > > The new server -- the old P100 -- a SUN LX as XTerminal -- a not yet > bought notebook -- and a 486 as router for the internet or sec

Re: Suggestions for dual processor

2001-01-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 10:56:27AM -0500, Sean wrote: > The main drawbacks to SMP, in my mind, are the additional cost (which I > really don't think is much of a drawback because I think you get > significantly better performance ... but others would probably disagree), The big question on perfo

Re: Suggestions for dual processor

2001-01-14 Thread Sean
The first computer I ever got was a home assembled dual Pentium Pro machine. At the time all I could afford was one processor, but a year or so later I got a second. Ever since that time I've been completely hooked on SMP. The second machine I got, and the one I currently use as my main machine

Re: Suggestions for dual processor

2001-01-14 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, dual processor systems are only really usefull when they have to perform several tasks parallel. Unless your kids are planning to play heavy games (if there are heavy games for X) a simple single processor system will do fine. I think you will do better investing in much memory, because server

Suggestions for dual processor

2001-01-14 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi Debians! I want to buy a new computer. My old one is a five year old P100. I want to set up a little debian network: The new server -- the old P100 -- a SUN LX as XTerminal -- a not yet bought notebook -- and a 486 as router for the internet or second X-Terminal for the kids (games!). I will