> -> such a device was used is supposed to run 24x7. 
> -> 
> 	Yeah, I checked the Clipper's specs. It does come with a battery,
> and you can get a 2.5" HDD in the Clipper for backup. Now, if you had the
> cash, imagine this: a 1.5 gigahertz processor, 512 MB RAM, an 8 gig Clipper
with 512MB RAM there would be no difference as whole quake could be kept
in RAM.
> drive, playing Quake over gigabit ethernet... Wow...

if Quake needs so fast network to work well it's terrible software.

> 	Definitely a good option for those 25/8 internet/application
> servers...
> 
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> 
> -> -----Original Message-----
> -> From: Thomas Michael Wanka [mailto:Tom@Wanka.at]
> -> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 3:32 PM
> -> To: port-i386@netbsd.org
> -> Subject: Re: recommended systems
> -> 
> -> 
> -> Hi,
> -> 
> -> On 19 Apr 2001, at 20:59, wojtek@3miasto.net wrote:
> -> 
> -> > not better to plug 1GB RAM to machine and write software that will
> -> > keep all in memory??
> -> > 
> -> In those days not too many Computers allowed 1GB Ram. Todays 
> -> clipper 2 will allow 8GB per disk (16 dimm slots, if 1GB dimms 
> -> were supported 16GB were possible) that could be combined by a 
> -> Raid controller.
> -> 
> -> > and it's volatile! disk must be nonvolatile
> -> 
> -> IIRC the clipper had a battery to keep memory for more than 12 
> -> hours. Other manufacturers have a backupdisk included, I suppose 
> -> in case of a power outage (either power failure or a shutdown of 
> -> the host) the SSD would be backed up to disk. A system where 
> -> such a device was used is supposed to run 24x7. 
> -> 
> -> mike
> -> 
> 

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It is just a bit selective about his friends.