On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, John Foust wrote:
> At 10:21 PM 1/26/99 -0800, Sam Ismail wrote:
> >To demonstrate that old
> >hardware that can be picked up for pennies can be combined to attain
> >amazing amounts of computing power.
>
> Amazing? How many orders of magnitude difference in horsepower
> between a C-64 and a $600 Best Buy Intel box? Perhaps I'm being
> unromantic, and I certainly have too many old computers of the
> XT/AT/486 variety, but I just don't "get" many of these distributed
> computing projects. (I do leave my spare contemporary computers
> working for the RC5 project at distributed.net, but that's another
> story.) Take 10 computers at 1 horse each, and they're still not
> equal to one contemporary (cheap) computer at 10 horses. Sure,
> there's hack value in doing it, but mostly for people with too
> much time on their hands, or for people who aren't paying for the
> electric bill or the room to put them in. Hack away, sure - but
> claim they're doing "useful" work?
So when this is pulled off successfully and we demonstrate the value of
this project, will you eat a print-out of this e-mail (on a standard 8.5 x
11 piece of paper) in front of the VCF crowd?
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Always being hassled by the man.
Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0
See
http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details!
[Last web site update: 01/15/99]
Received on Wed Jan 27 1999 - 14:52:02 GMT