> >>>>> "J" == Jeff Ivany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> J> Hi All. This talk about 386's has got me wondering... Has anyone
> J> ever tried to use a bunch of 386's as a small distributed computing
> J> system? I know that the Beowulf (sp?) project uses higher end
> J> machines but what about all those old 386 systems??
>
> It was called Amoeba. Andrew Tannenbaum did it, iirc. You should
> find some references to it if you web search, but it was never
> generally available to the public, just to schools for research or for
> money, I think.
>
[PT] I looked at Amoeba once. It looks like a cool system. It
requires at least 5 computers though. One for the file server,
one for the terminal and three for the processor pool. It is
free only to educational institutions (unless they changed their
policy). But, I digress... ;-)
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