It feels SOOOO good to run a modern OS on classic computers

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Dave McGuire wrote:
>   From 1994 (or so) through 1997, I ran two DECstation-3100s in 
> production roles on my home network; one as a name server and one as a 
> mail server handling several medium-volume lists.  Around the same time 
> I used a pair of VAXstation-3100/38 machines in production doing the 
> same things at an ISP in NJ.  All four machines were running NetBSD.  
> They barely broke a sweat under the load, and had a 100% reliability 
> record for the nearly three years that they were running.

I *still* use a DECstation 5000/260 as my DNS server and backup 
mailserver today.  The machine (200MHz R4400, if memory serves) is 
reasonably quick.

Peace...  Sridhar