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> I put together a nice machine for $300 this weekend. It is
> all undestructible second-hand stuff. A good 15" monitor
> ($100) and $200 spent on a nice&silent server box with a
> 486/66 and 2 SCSI disks of 540 MB each. I will install the
> CD-ROM later today (when I get the brackets) and the network
> will probably laid out this week too...
>
> This machine starts the GIMP faster than _any_ of those
> el-cheapo 300MHz boxes I've ever seen!
I remember a i386/40 "Novell server certified" machine that just ran
circles around a (then state-of-the-art) i486/100 clone.
[...]
> We can avoid it. Buy a balanced system.
Very true.
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