i looked up distributed.net but they're a seti-type project, not for individuals doing their own project. are you saying that these guys have a way people like us could take a bunch of 68k boards and PDS connect them for multiplied processor sharing and speed up??!!
alas, appernetly not, at least not unless you become partt of their projects. along the lines of our discussion on case modding, wishing to connect the processors of successive motherboards so that multiple CPU's could share and speed the task: IIRC, there was a college kid here in the last year who inquired about where he coud get abunch of 68k macs for his computer class, where they were gonna try to do exactly that--combine the processors in series of old boards and try to prove that old ones bunfled to share the load could leave the singular big ones in the dust. i tried to search the swaplist archives, but couldn't get it to take me back to last year. he never reported back. i wonder what became of the project? it sounded cool. and besides, if it worked, we could dedicate those hills of old macs to condensing them together as a supercomputer with multiple processors, and give the world yet another reason not to trash them, but reuse them in a way that would awe the typical human being who thinks that only the newest is worth looking at. janet http://community.webtv.net/mensabrains/BADCODE http://www.anybrowser.org -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
