30 Dec
2001
30 Dec
'01
9:50 p.m.
At 11:21 PM 12/30/01 +0000, you wrote:
Supposing one has a farm of older, relatively
slower machines (Sun-2's,
Sun-3's, early SPARCs, 386es, very small VAXen, 68k-based Macs, etc.)
running various Unixes (mostly NetBSD), networked together and connected
to the Net. What does one do with it?
I've been trying to think of some interesting, moderately useful
distributed-computing project that they could sit and crank away at
I say run the software that was meant to run on each era of machine, and
forget the distributed projects since most of the old iron is way too slow.