[rescue] Trailing-edge compute farm looking for gainful

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patrick at zill.net writes:

>On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 11:20:54PM -0000, jwbirdsa at picarefy.com 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?

>Don't most of these still have decent FLOP performance? Aside from the
>386s anyways.

No.

The only old workstations with surprisingly good FLOPS were the RS/6000s
and some MIPS boxes. (And i860s of course, but you never see those.)

Even if the other boxes made the intel offerings look pathetic back in
the day, they've been left far in the dust at this point.

(IMO)

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