Re: mu[OT]

From: Bob Romprey (zoot@farts.com)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2001 - 04:42:49 CET

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) Over here on my side of the pond just the opposite is occuring.
There's thousands of old boards being scrapped.
You see in order to get a high speed connection (cable or DSL)
The service providers have imposed minimum system requirements*grumble*(here P-166 32Megs and windows95/98)
Anything less or other than and they will not do the install.....period
Recently I had a cable setup installed at a location and when the time to do the install came, the installers (two chimpanzees in a truck) refused to install the cable modem because the customer "only" had a P-100............

winsor

>Reply-To: mulinux@sunsite.dk
>Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 20:32:40 +0000
>From: Dave Houghton <mulinux@blueyonder.co.uk>
>To: mulinux@sunsite.dk
>Subject: Re: mu[OT]
>
>On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 08:18:34PM -0800, Bob Romprey wrote:
>> What does a 386 board go for over there???
>> winsor
>
>Haven't seen 386 boards for a long time around here (If you discount the optimistic soul trying to get UKP 129 for complete system 100meg hd 4meg ram !!!!)
>
>Put it this way, for the price these dealers are asking for 486 systems I can get a brand new Abit m/board, Athlon processor and haggle for some ram into the bargain. Typicaly UKP 159 for 486sx 200meg hd 8 meg ram, no cd, 14 in vga monitor. Preloaded with Windows 3.11, Microsh..t office but of course no original cd's.
>
>I've got cases and psu's here so all I need is the mboard to implement the router in the same way you are doing (plan 2 in your post to Michele). I'm going to use a boot rom on the eth card to implement startup via bootp so don't need fd, hd, or cd.
>
>Think I'll move to your side of the pond as the cost of imported silicon and components over here for my business is getting ridiculous ( no Digi-key over here mate :-((( )
>
>
>--
>Dave muLinux UK mirror
>ICQ ...........
>Remember... if you break it you get to keep both halves
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