Subject: Re: what to do with an idle VAX... Make Webservers out of them
To: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@umbar.vaxpower.org>
From: NetBSD Bob <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/19/2001 11:14:54
> the reason the seti folks do not support the VAX is because we don't do
> IEEE floating point.

Well, why not storm the Web with VAXenboxes?  I had great luck running
a teaching webserver on a MicroVAX 3100/M20 crate (like 2 someodd vups)
that held its own against the gigacycle PeeCees.  Speed in webserving
is really not all that important, so VAXentoyz could serve well on the
Web.

As archival ftp servers, they could do well, too, since again, the
netconnect is usually the bottleneck.

What other sorts of uses could we drum up for olden VAXentoyz?

Bob