Re: Centris 650: buildd candidate?
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 04:04:26PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 04:12:11PM -0500, Joel Ewy wrote:
> > I recently hauled a couple carloads of computer junk away from my old
> > college, ranging from 68030 macs to Athlon 1700XP+ systems, plus WiFi
> > gear and lots of other stuff. One of the things I received was a
> > Centris 650, which is a 25MHz 68040. The CPU speed isn't all that
> > great, but it does have 4 72-pin SIMM sockets and I was able to get it
> > up to 136M, which is pretty good for a machine of this age. I have a 9G
> > SCSI drive with a 50-pin connector. The guy from the college said they
> > had lots of trouble with those 9G IBM drives, so I don't know if it's
> > any good or not, but should be useful if it works.
>
> The extra RAM is good for builds. However, the SCSI performance on these
> systems hasn't always been particularly good.
Not too bad either. Quickstep.nixsys.be (experimental autobuilder) is a
Centris 650, too, and has the same amount of RAM (or was that 138M? Not
sure).
It's not the fastest machine out there for sure, but it's reasonable.
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