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First let me tell you more about my system (cstmel.nl.eu.org) : it is an
intel professional workstation (panther motherboard)
with 4x16MB 72 pin FP Parity simms,
an adaptec EISA 2742A twin SCSI controller connected to
an IBM 1GB hard disk,
a GIGA GIGATAPE DAT tape streamer,
some weird SCSI cd player without parity (on the second channel),
an AMD 486 running at 133 MHz
and an ISA NE2000 compatible ethernet card.
Of course all of this is running linux.
The first panther I ever saw was way back in 1990/1991 at an intel office in
the netherlands. At that time P5 and PCI were still "kept" a secret. The system
was supposed to be a example model of how computers should be in the future:
low hardware maintenance costs by a click and replace model.
1999-01-14