Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 19:58:30 02/11/00
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On February 11, 2000 at 19:54:16, Vincent Vega wrote: >The problem is the cost of making a massively parallel machine. Using the power >of the Net you can bring together orders of magnitude more powerful system at a >fraction of the cost. Let's say you just paid $1,000,000 for a 10GHz Athlon. You put an ATI Rage Pro video card in it. You run Quake 3 and get < 10 frames per second. Then you go to a garage sale and get a 200MHz Pentium. You put a TNT2 video card in it. You run Quake 3 and get 20 frames per second. What you're proposing is pretty much like playing Q3 on the Athlon... -Tom
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