This sounds like a good use of 10 quid boxes, not to mention an excuse
for the missus to moan about "those bloody machines". Any more details
anyone?
James
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> From: Tempel, Philippe[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Sent: 20 March 1998 15:54
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: All this talk about 386's...
>
> > >>>>> "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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