tlug: Pentium 2 vs old Pentium

[Dave Gutteridge <dave@example.com>]

Rigth now I'm running a Linux server from a Pentium II machine with 128MB
RAM. It's nice and fast and i never worry about it's performance.
However, it's the company's machine, and i would kind of like to move my
more personal endeavors over to my own machine. I have an old Pentium 90
with 32MB RAM which i could bring for this purpose.
Now, what i'm wondering is: where am i going to feel the difference between
the two machines? I use the Linux server basically for four things: web
page service (Apache), FTP, mail (at least i hope to if i ever come to
understand it well enough) and i telnet into the thing to do all my file
management and maintenance and whatnot. Surely a pentium 90 is still
"thinking" faster than the information that's coming in to it via the Net.
But am i going to feel a difference big enough that would make me consider
just staying on the PII machine, or is it negligible enough that i will be
better off with my won hardware?

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	Dave Gutteridge
	3D Computer Animation Specialist
	e-mail: dave@example.com
	http://www.d-rave.com
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