Feedback from a friend with a shark:
		"Keep the shark on rc5"

	Apparently a VAXstation 3100/m76 pretty much beats the shark
	on anything FPU related... :(

		David/absolute

     		  -=-  "cold nights, dark days..."  -=-

On 30 Jun 1999, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> 
> Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org> writes:
> > Is there a 'shark' client and should I redirect the 60 sharks currently
> > running for the NetBSD team in the rc5.distributed.net competition towards
> > the SETI effort?
> > 
> > (the rc5.distributed.net competition has recently grown boring)
> 
> It would be nice, wouldn't it, especially since this actually can have 
> a positive impact on the world of radio astronomy. Unfortunately, you
> really need an FPU to do this right because all the calculations are
> extremely FPU intensive, so I don't know what a Shark's performance
> would be like.
> 
> Perry
> Who has four sharks of his own that he'd like to devote to the task, but...
>