At 6:32 PM +0100 9/28/01, Matthew wrote:
>On Friday, September 28, 2001, at 06:25  am, Rob Jennings wrote:
>
>>I'm new to NetBSD and this mailing list.  I'm hoping you guys can 
>>offer some advice.
>>
>>I'd like to choose a machine to run NetBSD/mac68k to accomplish the 
>>following:
>>
>>1.  Serve web pages and a Perl CGI chess script.   The pages are 
>>spartan and the chess application is not real time.  I won't have 
>>more than 10 users accessing the site a few times per day.  I have 
>>cable internet access.
>>
>>2. Run a mail server which will only be emailing my chess users 
>>when their opponent has made a move.
>>
>>3. Share my cable internet access with my iMac running Mac OS 9.2 
>>and one or more other machines.
>>
>>Is this possible on a IIci?  Or would a Centris or Quadra 650 be 
>>more appropriate?
>>
>>What about serving MP3 files (not playing them of course) to my 
>>iMac and other machines?  I'd like to add a headless and diskless 
>>mp3 jukebox (maybe a NetBSD/i386 machine) to my network in the 
>>future.
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any suggestions.  I'm really looking forward 
>>to trying out NetBSD.  In all honesty I've never touched a Unix 
>>style command line before so I'm sure I'm in for a lot of, um, fun!?
>
>I bought a Quadra 650 a couple of months ago... boy is it fast!

Heheh, only in CLI NetBSD-land will you hear someone referring to a 
33/66 Mhz computer as fast ;-).

As to the original question...my only thought is that macbsd.com used 
to be served on a IIcx or IIci (I forget which), & it got decent hits.

Mike
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