linuxcaffe; become peripheraly involved !

[Joseph Kubik]

What bus are the 3/50s and 3/60s?


On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:17:49 -0500, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:04:49PM -0500, David J Patrick wrote:
> > You know; phone line in one end and xDSL pppoe out the other ?
> > Speadstream ? Alcatel ? the thing that Sympatico dings you (me)
> > $10/month for ?
> 
> Oh a DSL modem with an ethernet connection on it.  Why pay $10/month
> when you can buy it for $80?  And isn't sympatico overpriced to begin
> with?
> 
> > yess yess HUB ! you know; USB goes in one side and more than one USB
> > comes  out the other !
> 
> I haven't personally ever needed one, although I think my farther is
> likely too soon (just how he has ended up with 7 usb devices on one
> system I can't imagine).
> 
> > I hope to have several webcams going, and use usb numeric keypads as
> > interfaces to the security system.
> 
> Hmm, interesting idea.
> 
> > or it's CoasterCreator (tm) !
> 
> I have run an ASUS 40x cd writer on a pentium 75 before.  It performed
> pretty good, and the burnproof system took care of the hickups.  Much
> better than I had imagined.  My experience with a DVR-103 (2x DVD
> writer) on a pentium II 450 was much worse (close to unusable) due to a
> complete lack of any buffer underrun handling.
> 
> > I'm guessing the 68k refers to Macintoshy  CPUs, but the mips draws a
> > blank.
> > Yup, that's odd, alright !
> 
> 68k are actually sun 3/50 and 3/60s and the mips are Decstation 5000/240
> and /133's.  I meant _really_ odd old hardware.
> 
> I have Debian Sarge working fine on the Decstations, but haven't messed
> with the sun's in a while.  Debian or NetBSD should work on them, as
> does the SunOS 4 based Xserver software I have for them.
> 
> Lennart Sorensen
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