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CA>>> I really never did feel that UNIX or any clone thereof
CA>>> was going to be a great OS for newbies or the 'home
CA>>> market'. A glorified XBox or PlaysStation would be better
CA>>> for the 'home market' if they added some way to store all
CA>>> the pirated music, video, and pr0n they would sell faster
CA>>> than ice cubes in Hell. 

TW>> They are working on that one. There are Hacks already out
TW>> there to use one of those boxes as a computer as I recall. 

CA>> Could be a conflict of interest or some such but if SONY
CA>> ever wakes up to what a silly computer most home users
CA>> really want they could take over the home computer market
CA>> in no time. ;-) 

RJT> There was a mention somewhere in a magazine some time back
RJT> about somebody taking a whole pile of those machines,
RJT> loading linux on them, and using them as a cheap "array"
RJT> of computers for something or other. Or maybe that was
RJT> playstations, I don't recall. 

"Imagine a beowulf cluster of these ..." is a running gag at
SlashDot for just about anything and everything. If you find
that concept interesting I do have a link to instructions for
setting up a beowulf cluster of legacy hardware DOS machines at
my tech website and it's not a gag, it's real. ;-) 

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