Re: System results-best tool for intra-day system development

["A.J. Carisse" <carisse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Osborn wrote:

> Sure, the staff would be nice, but you sure don't need the
> Suns or Crays.  One Linux machine would do the job nicely.
> If you wanted to spend $3K instead of $1K on the hardware,
> you could invest in a nice fast DEC Alpha machine.

I'm looking at a machine which has 6 Pentium Pro's, 2Gig of super-fast
RAM, 100 Mhz. SCSI Raid Array, etc.  This might be a bit much, though,
although I could use the 2 gigs for sure.  Something along the lines of
Dual Pentium II 300's with a gig of RAM would do quite nicely - this
will only set you back about 15 grand, nicely configured, instead of the
50K+ for the other machine.

Regards,
A.J.