Eight EISA slots is... just wow. I have no idea what you'd fill that many with. (Once upon a time I did do some part-time admin of an NT-based rackmount PBX system that had a huge ISA backplane filled with about a dozen POTS interface cards, but that's a pretty specialized application.)
For a while I had this strange urge to seek out one of those dual Socket 5 systems just to see how well Linux actually ran on one. (The slowest multi-CPU Intel system I've owned was based on one of those Abit BP6 dual Celeron motherboards which were crazy-popular back in 1999.) I sort of think I'm over it now. (Supposedly there are multi-socket 486 systems floating around as well, but it's easier to get a signed photo of Bigfoot than it is to lay your hands on one of them, leaving Sun Sparcstation 10/20s as your best bet for finding some super-slow SMP action.)
For a while I had this strange urge to seek out one of those dual Socket 5 systems just to see how well Linux actually ran on one. (The slowest multi-CPU Intel system I've owned was based on one of those Abit BP6 dual Celeron motherboards which were crazy-popular back in 1999.) I sort of think I'm over it now. (Supposedly there are multi-socket 486 systems floating around as well, but it's easier to get a signed photo of Bigfoot than it is to lay your hands on one of them, leaving Sun Sparcstation 10/20s as your best bet for finding some super-slow SMP action.)