[ILUG] motherboard question

[pbm]

Rick Moen, Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:06:41AM -0800:
> The 440BX chipset was a real workhorse for its day (introduced 1998).
> Excellent stuff.  I don't know about the Asustek implementation,
> however.

AIDI (short for Adelaide, I wanted a machine who stood in the top of the
browsing list of the domain) was my workstation from march 1998 to
november 1999. It was a P-II/266 with 64Mb of RAM, ncr53c875, IBM 4.5G
SCSI UW, all on a P2B :)
On november 1999, whan I was given my first laptop, it was reinstalled
with Windows 2000 and given to another person, who dismantled it in
2002. It's been in a dusty storage room until mid december, when our
firewall, a PIII-500, started rebooting randomly. We took AIDI, mounted
the firewall's disk and NICs on it, and voila, it's a perfect firewall
still.

A complete board, with all you need, nothing more, perfectly reliable
for 24/7 operations even after 6 years.

p.
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pbm - "but the only soldier now it's me, I'm fighting things that I
    -  cannot see, I think it's called my destiny"