Re: HP RP2430 RISC sysytem

[yxcv@vienna.at]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2023 12:13:26 -0400
 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > AFAICT the RP-2430 has a 650MHz PA-8700.  Not sure how it compares 
> > to my
> > Pentium III, but it's likely somewhat slower at least for non-FP
>
> Actually, the SPEC results I find for CINT2000 for "similar" 
> machines
> suggest that it's probably about as fast, so I think that with 2GB 
> it
> should be definitely still usable.
> [ And who knows: maybe it can even be fitted with more than 2GB of 
> RAM,
>  since the 2GB info dates back to 2001.  ]
>
>
>        Stefan "dreaming of a modern machine with a 2.25MB L1 cache"
2GB RAM. IT IS NOT TOO MUCH  for firefox-Monster.....or OS?