Re: New installation, newbie questions
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 12:48:29PM -0500, Jeramy B Smith wrote:
> I am going to be doing some volunteer work for an inner city school. The
> classroom I'll be helping out has 3 MacIIsi and 1 centris610. I have a list
> of which upgrades I would have to get to make linux boot on these machines.
List of upgrades?
The only thing I can think of would be more RAM if you're seriously short on
it. FPU emulation works quite well on the IIsi - not so sure about the 610
though.
> I would like to pool the power of these macs so that these kids can do some
> processing and such but if the mosix iverhead is too high than I won't get
> any benefit.
IIRC, Mosix is more for fail-over type clustering (server farms and such)
than parallel processing, and therefore won't help you in this case.
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