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tonight's project:

i am going to install ArcaOS 5.1 on my Pentium3 box.

this machine has:

- dual 1000MHz (133MHz bus) Pentium 3 processors
- 1.25 GiB of SDRAM (133MHz; more is possible but will downclock the memory controller to 100MHz)
- a bootable PCI SATA controller
- two Crucial SATA drives, for RAID1
- several network cards
- a Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP graphics card
- a Gigabyte GC-RAMDISK, a volatile DDR-backed 4GiB SSD (this is completely useless since the SSDs already max out SATA link speed but its fun)

this machine has been sitting without much use since i more or less gave up trying to get Rust and modern Linux to work on it a few months ago. i think (hope?) i'm going to have a much better time with ArcaOS.

if it works, i also want to set up Netware 4.x - which has a specialized variant which runs paravirtualized under OS/2 (ArcaOS is a modern continuation of OS/2).

the combination of ArcaOS's SMB server with Netware 4.x should enable me to use this machine as a network server for all of my retro machines, and likely modern ones too. also, i have licenses for everything involved, so it's completely above board! (no, really. i even have the NetWare license floppies)

and then i can also use it to play SimCity 2000 and do some software development