> Here,
> we have an old HP9000 L1000 PA-RISC S800 350MHz.
> It was used in education environnement with HP-UX and very robust
> softwares like HP C compiler and Oracle 9.
> When the very expensive HP support as come to end, we switched to
> proliant and redhat 4 :-[ .
>
> Now the platform is used with Debian sarge as Internet gateway
> (squid+postfix+webmail) and disk space is used as i386 Debian mirror.
> The server is robust and it does this job Very well!
> The major reason we keep using it, it's because it has cost about $12
> 000 and it hurts throwing such a heavy, noisy, and expensive machine
> :'( !
>
> nowdays, a $500 laptop could do the job better :'( :'( !!!! But
> that's computing....