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Date:      Tue, 7 Oct 1997 21:38:18 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.971007213515.19349A-100000@dot.ishiboo.com>
In-Reply-To: <5361.876213747@time.cdrom.com>

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> ...so if we wanted to draw some nifty insect
> analogies for massive distributed parallelism then I guess we could
> call such a cluster a "FreeBSD plague", or "a plague of FreeBSD
> machines."  This would lead in turn to some pretty nifty sound bites,
> such as "Got plague?"  or "The FreeBSD plague: Catch it today!"

 
> Yeah, I like it!  It's got legs, gents!  Let's do it!!  Let's...
> What?  I should stick to engineering, you say?  But it's so *catchy*,
> I mean, haha, consider just the pun opportunities!  No?  Well fine, be
> that way then!  [*sulk*]

My favorite quote from English class:
"Avoid cliche's like the Plague..."

Kevin



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