Subject: Re: SETI@home clients being built
To: None <dmf20@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 06/21/1999 23:38:21
In <Pine.SOL.3.95q.990621074924.10349A-100000@red.csi.cam.ac.uk>
dmf20@hermes.cam.ac.uk wrote:

> > However not sure how a 56MHz 7500FE with FP instructions compares
> against
> > a 233MHz SA110 with software FP.
> 
> I keep meaning to convince my machine to run FP, but other things seem to
> get in the way...

It seems that a 233MHz SA110 with software FP will take about 320 hours
to finish one SETI@home unit. I guess a 56MHz 7500FE with FP is faster
than it.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp