Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> writes:

>   I'm probably going to get this all wrong but here it is.
> With computers you will find that the fastest system speed
> you can obtain is equal to your slowest piece of hardware.
> It might add a little more cpu power but because of the buss
> speed and cpu speed you will probably slow down everything
> to the speed of the 386DX40.
> A no gain situation.
> But I'm probably wrong again.

You are. :) PVM doles out small portions to each machine as they
finish, so the faster machines get more of the work.
However, the machine he has in mind would be useless for this, as it
has no hard drive and this no place to swap--and any scene that would
fit in the .5 meg or so that he would have left after the kernel and
ramdisk wouldn't need to be split up.

Shalon Wood

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People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die.
--Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban

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