On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 06:19:28PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 6:05 PM Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote: > > > > > John Hasler wrote: > > > > It's also important to understand that NNTP is a peer to peer protocol. > > > > Any group of NNTP servers configured to connect to each other form a > > > > network. Anyone can run an NNTP server. While it once required a VAX > > > > with a T1 to act as a Usenet "backbone" site any desktop with broadband > > > > can easily handle it now. > > > > > > .... > > > A Raspberry Pi is overkill. > > > > > > > Then my Arduino Mega is full-on High Performance Computing ???? > > By the standards of 1975, it is a minicomputer suitable for > supporting a business with four terminals: accounting, sales, > secretarial, and production. To resurrect another paleontological meme (the older among us will know): "can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?" [1], [2] (How time passes: ref [2] tells me the joke was already "pathetic" and "died a long time ago" in... 2005 :-) (Trying to quench a zombie thread with a zombie meme might lead to something... interesting, don't you think?) Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Beowulf_cluster#What_Is_Funny_About_.2F._Jokes.3F - t
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