Re: [TCLUG:23077] Creative uses for old PCs using Linux?

[Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070@tc.umn.edu>]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Chris Opp wrote:

> What kinds of things can be done using Linux on old PCs, (i.e. 486, Pentium 
> 100, etc)? I am already aware that you can use an older 486 to make a router 
> out of it, but what other creative things can be done?

I'm hoping to harness a few (half dozen) 486 to see if I can't do a
mini-Beowulf cluster.  I would be pickled tink if I can do some
computational fluid dynamics faster than the easy to get at machines at
the U.  (I'm not trying to compete with the supercomputing facility.)

Cheers,
Phil M

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