1 Nov
2005
1 Nov
'05
5:44 p.m.
On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 21:55:29 +0000
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Pete Turnbull wrote:
When people start throwing out mini-ITX boards it will be because they have
'expired' as they are commodity-PC stuff and not built-to-last. A Sparc IPX that
is ten years older then them will still be chugging along, most likely.
FWIW, I think Tim's suggestion (mini-ITX) is
amongst the best.
I suppose it depends on how much is available to spend - used Suns and
the like can be had for free, versus a certain amount for a mini-ITX
board (I've not found people throwing out the latter just yet, although
give it a couple of years...)
Mind you, I suppose it's harder to find extra NICs
for a
Sun/SGI/whatever versus a PC...
I got several Sbus ethernet cards for the price of shipping and a little bit from a list
member here recently.
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