Subject: Re: cheap low profile system?
To: Christophe Kalt <kalt@stealth.net>
From: James Sharp <jsharp@psychoses.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/24/2000 00:03:45
> i'm looking for a _cheap_ 2U high (or less) system that would
> run netbsd. there seems to be more and more companies offering
> such PCs for $1k or more, but i was wondering about other
> architectures.
>
> i just need a few GB of disk, 64MB of ram or more, nic
> (obviously), and console/serial port.
Depending on your application, there's also the SunSparc & Alpha
architectures.
You can get a sparcstation 10 or an AlphaServer 250 for a couple of
hundred dollars off Ebay. They'll both run NetBSD without a major hitch.