> I just installed Slackware 7.0 on an old 386SX and I want it
> to do distributed computing of some kind. However, the
> lowest CPU mprime allows is a 486. What can I do?
phew. a 386sx is SO slow I really can't imagine WHAT useful computational
work it could do... Thats a 25 or so MHz CPU with a 16 bit bus that
probably takes 5-6 clocks to do a simple integer operation. Oh, and its got
no floating point. I'd estimate it at least a few 100 times slower than
even a slow celeron at numerical work. No, wait. make that several
THOUSAND times slower.
-jrp
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