dion_b <dion_b@nospam.no> wrote:
> Daniel Rock wrote:
>> dion_b <dion_b@nospam.no> wrote:
>>> Dead right - these machines can be quite nippy even by todays standard,
>>
>> These machines were dog slow - even five years ago.
>>
> Five years ago these things were EOL already.

.... and replaced by even more crappy machines: Blade 100


> The question is what you
> use them for. Even my maxed out U10 is incapable of playing a DiVX film
> fullscreen - which a lousy little P2-400 x86 would have no trouble with
> - so looking at pure CPU power they could be called dog slow - but as a
> light little fileserver they're excellent, getting better throughput
> rates than you'd get with a faster clocked x86 system.

Only in your dreams. Their IDE controller was total crap. My old P-II 450
(1998) was in every aspect faster than any Ultra 5/10, including serving
files.

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Daniel