The Operating System.
I had actually started August of 2000 with a new Tyan Tiger 133 mainboard, bought
at Computers-4-Sure.com. Two Pentium-III 600Mhz 133FSB FCPGA (SL3XJ) were bought off of eBay.
Short_Rook had been "decommissioned" in favor of the new dual-cpu system. Getting the
hardware was very easy. As stated, hardware is slave to the server. The server is an
application.
So the next question is the operating system. Windows NT4 Server is expensive and I can
only have 10 clients. The Pro is that you can install it and "almost" be ready to go.
The other option was to use Linux. The clients are free but the con is that you have to
have a bit of knowledge. For me, the final decision was that I was unfamiliar with monitor
settings in Linux. I have my own set standards for monitors and a 17" monitor must be able
to utilize 24-bit graphics at 1024x768 pixels, minimum. I could not/did not know how to do
this in Linux. So Linux went on the back-burner...for now. There WILL be other systems.
> > > More on Merlins_Rook - Server Services
> > > Nah...Next System, please
