On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 00:05:12 -0800 (PST) 
 Keith Woodworth <kwoody@citytel.net> wrote:

 > > don't go too high.  My main mail server at home is a Sun-3/260, which
 > > isn't all that much faster than a -3/60, and it handles a hundred
 > > messages a day no problem, and could probably handle a thousand a day
 > > without crumpling, provided they didn't all attack it at once :-)

The 3/260 has a significant advantage over the 3/60; it has a write-back
VAC.  (Course, it really almost has to have one, otherwise you'd feel
the pain of VME memory :-)

 > > 50 hits a *day*?!  That's nothing.  Even the very slowest machine
 > > NetBSD runs on (which is probably one of the HP 9000/300 boxen, a
 > > 68020/16.66667 box (I have one, a 9000/319 I think it is)) could surely

The HP 9000/320 is by far the slowest of the 300 series (barring the 310,
which has a 68010... but alas, NetBSD can't run on it).

The 320 has a 16.67MHz 68020 and an HP MMU + 16k VAC (the 350 had a slightly
faster processor, 25MHz I believe, and a 32k VAC).  The 319 is a 16.67MHz
68020 with a Motorola 68851 PMMU; it is significantly faster than a 320
due to an improved bus (the 320 doesn't have the DIO-II bus, only DIO).

>From the conversation I had w/ Mouse at the San Jose IETF, he has a
320, and yes, it's one of the slowest machines that runs NetBSD; I think
the 11/780 is slower, though.

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