Subject: Re: SETI@home ?
To: NetBSD Bob <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
From: None <allisonp@world.std.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/03/1999 13:30:29
> I just last week purchased for the sum of one buckeroo, my own TS-802
> Z80 CP/M box that I used 20 years back, in Moo U surplus.  I did not
> have the heart to watch it go to a scrapper dustbin.  I vaguely
> remember those z80 floating point routines.... does that mean my
> Televideo box can run a Z80 assembler NetBSD with seti@home?
> 
> (donning the ol' Inet Flak Suit with haste.....(:+}}.....)

Yes, with lots of disk and lots of overlays and very vveerrrryyyy 
slowly!

Of course you need the sources, then fit them to the 64k memory space
and the IEEE FP routines will be slow (FP divide ~1-5mS, yes,
milliseconds per).


Allison