<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eric Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:erictsmith@gmail.com">erictsmith@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><span class="q"></span>Haha, I know I said i had a hard time getting rid of old hardware... but that's just ridiculous :). Did you in some way compare my XP 2500+ to a Pentium 75Mhz? :)
</div></blockquote><div><br>If it has protected independent process address spaces (and kernel) its a "real" computer. If it runs Linux that's even better. I tend to draw lines between the '86, the Pentium and the Pentium Pro. I ran dual PPro motherboards from '97 thru '05 with both Win2K (desktop) and Linux (web server) and they were perfectly functional machines.
<br><br>And yes, I was poking a bit of fun at "old" motherboards... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that...<br><br>Now getting back to Paul's comments which may apply here. Is the "newer PCI voltages" issue a 5V vs
3.3V problem? The bus mastering issue raises some latent memories and I think the MBOs usually had at least a couple of bus master slots (but I'd have to check).<br><br>Alternatively, I could find a case for the PPro MBO with 4 PCI slots. Its got the voltage regulators on the board so I presume the processor and PCI bus(?) are running at the lower voltage. Guess in that situation the Gateway P75 would have to be turned into a router or web cache machine.
<br><br>Robert<br><br></div><br></div><br>