Thanks to Bill
Longabaugh for this link.
“… a few companies have re-evaluated the problem of setting up
small Internet and intranet networks while still providing the
basic services people want such as e-mail, file sharing, and
serving web pages…”
“The Qube, and many of the other microservers, is essentially a
box built around a MIPS processor. It has a modest IDE hard drive
(2 to 3 gigabytes), a single PCI slot (yep, just one), and dual
10/100BaseT Ethernet ports…”
“… No keyboard or mouse, no graphics board or monitor, no
floppy or CD-ROM drive or sound card or any of the extras we tend
to expect in a PC. In fact, it doesn’t even have a built-in
modem.
“It does have Linux 2.0, Apache Web Server 1.3, FrontPage Server
Extensions, CGI, and Perl support, and also includes an HTML
editor, a handful of other useful tools, and some clever shell
scripts that let you configure and administer everything via a
browser…”