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Gary Jackson bargle at umiacs.umd.edu
Wed Nov 28 11:42:37 PST 2001


On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Velocet wrote:

>Why bother when for about $300 USD you can put together a
>cluster node with a 1.333GHz athlon with 256Mb of DDR ram?

Because you don't have to "pay" for assembly, or debugging the
equipment, or anything like that.  You even get a 90 day warranty.
With a self assembled beige box, it may take you 90 days to figure out
which part is broken.

-- 
					Gary Jackson
					bargle at umiacs.umd.edu



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