Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

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> So, back to the issue at hand.  Anybody have fond memories of great 486

> or Pentium-based servers (or other arch equivs)?

>

> Doug.

>

>   

Back in 1999, I picked up several used HP Vectra Pentium 100 desktops

for use as backup backup dial in administration machines at our remote

sites, none have had any failures, not even hard drive failures. We've

never updated the OS since they've never crashed, and the only external

link is a modem. They run mgetty+ssh on the internal lan interface.
The one at the site with the most reliable power has been running for

quite a while...
uptime

10:38PM  up 1294 days,  4:07, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Most of the others are in the 200-300 day range, all from extended power

outages at the sites.
FreeBSD 3.3-19990914-RC #0: Tue Sep 14 12:56:08 GMT 1999

    root@dod.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/STDOD

Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz

Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 99546682 Hz

CPU: Pentium/P54C (99.55-MHz 586-class CPU)

  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x525  Stepping = 5

  Features=0x1bf

real memory  = 33554432 (32768K bytes)

avail memory = 29786112 (29088K bytes)

Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02c9000.

Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:

chip0:  rev 0x01 on pci0.0.0

chip1:  rev 0x01 on pci0.1.0

vga0:  rev 0xfc on pci0.5.0

wdc0:  rev 0x02 int a irq 14 on pci0.7.0

Probing for PnP devices:

CSN 1 Vendor ID: TCM5095 [0x95506d50] Serial 0xafd0e43c Comp ID: @@@0000

[0x00000000]

Probing for devices on the ISA bus:

sc0 on isa

sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>

atkbdc0 at 0x60-0x6f on motherboard

atkbd0 irq 1 on isa

psm0 not found

sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa

sio0: type 16550A

sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa

sio1: type 16550A

fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa

fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold

fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in

wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 flags 0xa0ffa0ff on isa

wdc0: CMD640B workaround enabled

wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): , multi-block-16

wd0: 814MB (1667232 sectors), 1654 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S

wdc1 not found at 0x170

ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 flags 0x40 on isa

ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode

lpt0:  on ppbus 0

lpt0: Interrupt-driven port

ppi0:  on ppbus 0

plip0:  on ppbus 0

1 3C5x9 board(s) on ISA found at 0x300

ep0 at 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa

ep0: utp[*UTP*] address 00:20:af:d0:e4:3c

vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa0000 msize 131072 on isa

npx0 on motherboard

npx0: INT 16 interface

Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug

changing root device to wd0s1a