486 Machines Re:Re: luau digest: November 17, 2001

[MonMotha]

100mbit on a 486?  Doubtful unless they have a PCI bus (which was very 
rare among 486s).  I've only seen one 100mbit ISA card, made by 3com. 
However, you could possibly use VNC instead of just straigt up X remote 
display and get a thin client job accomplished nicely in 10mbit.

--MonMotha

Warren Togami wrote:

> On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 06:09, bmusson wrote:
> 
>>No, This will be more like "Hey what am I going to do with all these 486's".
>>That was the challenge
>>we presented him. Cluster 8-486 machines together to see what the result
>>would look like.
>>(Beside I needed to figure out what to do with all
>>this stuff!)
>>
>>Bill
>>
> 
> What are the hardware specs on the 486's?  If they have reliable 100Mbit
> network cards and at least 2MB of video RAM, they could probably be
> converted into Linux thin clients.
> 
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