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From: Tom E Arnold <tomea@exe...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] (the potential) new release of Plan9, i386 only?
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:39:38 GMT

Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
> 
> Of course it's not an optimum design, but the advantage of
> being able to buy disk, memory, peripherals, and especially
> application software at the corner store is overwhelming.
> 
Never mind corner store; try the dumpsters in any good-sized office
park. I have enough scavenged 486 machines to build a Beowulf cluster
and still have enough left over for playing with Plan9. I'm starting to
find 10BaseT cards, Pentiums up to 133 mHz and gig+ IDE drives. I'd have
to find some much classier dumpsters or spend money on other things than
ram to play with anything more "elegant".

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