cowan@soleil.sps.mot.com (Andrew H Cowan) (02/15/91)
I have a Compaq Deskpro 386/25 system that's just gathering
dust. It has Interactive Systems' UNIX System V/386 on it
and quite a bit of disk space. I'm told that this system
is no slouch - and I'm on a mission to make use of it.
Two ideas that I'm considering:
1) Make it an Xterminal or X workstation.
Xterminal software would have to make it comparable
in cost/performance to an NCD Xterminal.
If X11 were put on it, does it have the power to
be useable as a workstation?
2) Make it a Usenet server.
This would be a great use of the system in my view,
as long as it can handle the disk space requirements.
So, has anyone out in net land used a Compaq in either
of these ways? I'd like to know if anyone has compiled
the Usenet programs on this system and if anyone is
using one as I propose.
I'm not familiar with this system at all, so if anyone
can answer a few naive questions for me:
* Can the system take expansion disk? How? How much ($)?
* What is the relative power of this machine in MIPS?
* For what purpose are these systems commonly used?
-AC
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