On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:52:42PM -0500, Mike Nielsen wrote: > howdy all. > > Through a quirk of fate I have the possibility of getting my mits on a > HP9000/800 g40. > > I don't exactly know what that is aside from a cluster of parts roughly the > size of a refridgerator. > > Does anyone know if it's worth the hassle of lugging the thing up two flights > of stairs to try to get linux to run on it? I have zero experience with > this type of equipment and don't really know what sort of processor memory or > whatever is in it. > > I'm pretty sure its a Risc processor with working harddrives. Beyond that > I'm not sure about Mhz or anything. > > Anyone ever play with one of these? Can't say I have, but a quick search on google turned up this: http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2001-January/011564.html It doesn't look like linux will run on it :-/ -- Thomas Eibner <http://thomas.eibner.dk/> DnsZone <http://dnszone.org/> mod_pointer <http://stderr.net/mod_pointer>