[H-GEN] Call for suggestions

[Raymond Smith]

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On 19 Oct 1999, Jason Henry Parker wrote:
> The question now is finding something to *do* with it; do any
> humbuggers have any suggestions for hack-worthy things for this box to
> do?

Why not play around with CORBA? I'm sure it would be way slow, but you
might even consider writting and running GNOME/KDE programs on the 486 and
try out their ORBs and mappings.

You _can_ get very small orbs[1] so this should be doable, even on a 486.
You could always try fnorb and python.

> (The first person to say `beowulf' gets hit in the head.  Hard.)

Ooo, ooo. Beowulf! Yay! I win![1]

Raymond
[1] It would be the first time today.

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raymond at humbug.org.au              The early bird catches the worm, 
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