The simple answer to your first question is yes. Given your example, though,
the better answer is "sorta".
You want to search the usual sources on "Linux Beowulf", efforts to cluster
via Ethernet some number of (usually) fast Pentiums to do high-performance
distributed computing. I doubt anyone has looked into doing this as a way to
recycle old 386s, though. One URL to check to get started (one that reports
on a mixed network of about 125 486s and Pentiums and has links to other Web
sites) is http://www.esd.ornl.gov/facilities/beowulf/
At 10:52 PM 4/9/99 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote [abridged]:
>Anyway. I've read in a few places that it is possible to network
>computers together, and have them kinda collectively process information.
>First question: Is this true?
>
>And, does that mean I could have several 386s working to decompress and
>play MP3s that I am playing, so that it would take the load from my single
>486 processor?
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