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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 07:51:58 -0600
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] grid computing -- high performance?
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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 geoff@collyer.net wrote:

> Maybe so, but aren't we arguing about values epsilon here?
> (i.e., Plan 9 takes very little effort to administer, so
> going from very little to very very little may not matter
> much.)


no, because a small number times 1500 can start to look bigger than you 
like.

ron