There was a great sense of community, and high competition between the other platforms. The Macintosh team 'EvangeLista' was unseated from its vaunted position earlier in the year by Slashdot.org. Distributed Computing Technologies, Inc. is the world's largest non-profit venture in distributed computing. Thanks to the sudden ubiquity of the internet, computer users can join forces in tackling great and seemingly insurmountable computational challenges - all while their computer sits idle. The final sum of these 'idle cycles' is enough to challenge the dominance of even the most expensive mainframes and research computers.
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