On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 12:27:52PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> > 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.
It might be able to work on one of the distributed.net projects. I
don't *think* the rc5 stuff uses floating point.
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