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Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:46:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, John D. Forinash writes:
> In article <GuEoz7.BCH@lugnet.com>, Dan Boger <dan@peeron.com> wrote:
> > hey, it's not a 386, but our home firewall is a 486 with 7M or RAM :) and
> > our mailserver/fileserver/wireless firewall is a P90... I was thinking of
> > putting a streaming mp3 server on it too... *grin*
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> Most likely, that 486 actually has 8 1MB SIMMs under the hood, and it claims
> it has 7168k or so due to caching ("shadowing") the video BIOS ROM, the
> system BIOS ROM...
could be - but I think we ended up putting some not-so-good memory in it...
I think it reports 8016K or something like that...
> ...Being a firewall, you can probably at least get away with turning off the
> video ROM shadow (in the BIOS setup stuff), and get some of that back for
> real use.
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> Of course, being a firewall, it probably didn't need even all 7 meg, either. :)
heh, nope - it doesn't even log to itself, nor does it run _any_ services
(other than mgetty on the serial :). Maybe I should make it into a halted
firewall, the idea is too cool.
> I gave up. I decided it wasn't worth arguing with ancient hardware when a
> hundred bucks buys a Linksys filtering router and the one machine that's
> visible had to be hardened anyow since it's a webswerver... Of course, it
> was much easier to justify that $100 when the 486 I was using had the video
> card go south on me, and I didn't have any ISA or VLB video boards lying
> around unused...
heh, video cards? we don't need none :) just get a serial cable for it...
*grin*
Dan
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