On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> distributed computing. I doubt anyone has looked into doing this as a way to
> recycle old 386s, though.
They have. ISTR the original beowulf was made of 386s, and it has
certainly been done.
> At 10:52 PM 4/9/99 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote [abridged]:
>
> >Anyway. I've read in a few places that it is possible to network
> >computers together, and have them kinda collectively process information.
> >First question: Is this true?
> >
Yes.
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