Setup for Programming (Score 1)

You do not have to spend a lot of money for a good setup. I spend about 12 hours a day mostly porting and reading newspapers in several languages for relaxation and information. For programming I use a whole bunch of white background xterms (tiled and overlapped) on 21 inch monitors. I got two used SGI monsters for $150.- apiece (used). After learing the advantage of multiprocessors on a dual MAC G4 (800 MHz) (used for $800.-); but the 200 GByte disk is slow for compiling large packages. Therefore, my development machine now is a Poweredge server with four 550 MHz pentium III, 2 Gbyte error correcting memory and 6 SCSI 36 GByte disks. I can work on two packages at the same time without feeling constrained (again $800.- used) On the same 100 Mbit network are another three single CPU pentium III, two Pentium II (little used) an UltraSparc 5, a i486 Firewall and a Lasejet 4MV (16 pages per minute (11x17 in capability)($400.- used ). Keyboards and Monitors are switchable. After playing aroud with different chairs I am back on straight dining room chair; the light is daylight or indirect fluorescent.