From: yakkman@hotmail.com (Boris Yakk)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: Re: Newbie Question.....Please forgive my ignorance.
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 11:43:58 GMT
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On Sun, 06 Dec 1998 19:25:20 GMT, sagrillo@tiac.net (DeAnn Iwan)
wrote:

>On Sat, 05 Dec 1998 04:40:24 GMT, yakkman@hotmail.com (Boris Yakk)
>wrote:

>     I am setting up a network with 4 486s--and find it  a very good
>learning tool.  However, if you do some timing analysis, you will find
>that 1 new Celeron at 450 MHz will run about as much as 20
>486s--assuming great additiveness in the 486s.  I also find that the
>money I spend on cables is worth more than the machines.  The 10baseT
>will bog down very quickly (it is about as fast as an ISA bus).

THANK YOU!  That is what I was looking for.  Since this whole PVM
thing is new to me, I was totally unaware of the scalability of the
486 and how it compares to current processor technology.

- Boris