AB> Hello Bob,

   BA>> This box is a 486.  My main computer is a 100 Mhz
     >> Pentium.

 AB>     I could do quite a bit of the work that I need to do on
 AB> a 100 MHz Pentium or 486, but it would take a long time.
 AB> e.g. building SeaMonkey would take a few days.
 AB> OpenOffice.org would probably be out of the question.

 AB>     After some research and much thought, I have ordered an
 AB> mITX board that has an Intel Atom chip soldered to it.  I
 AB> also ordered a single 2 Gbyte DIMM, the maximum RAM the
 AB> board will take.  It's not the entry-level server I was
 AB> hoping for, but it can use SATA disk drives and should be
 AB> noticably faster than this Pentium III.

 Why do you need much speed for a server?



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