do these suffer the same basic problem that the seti@home did, namely, 
that they requiere ieee754 floating-point, which has to be emulated on a 
vax?
isildur

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, John Klos wrote:

> Hi, all,
> 
> Of course we can all have a discussion about the value of the
> distributed.net projects, and about the relatively insignificant amount of
> work that VAX can do, but that can be for another time.
> 
> One of the distributed.net coders is in the process of making a VAX
> client. Why? Well, why not? VAX are cool, and you know what they say about
> idle CPUs... Anyway, the OGR and RC5-72 cores are not optimised, so the
> clients are even SLOWER than what a VAX is really capable of doing.
> 
> Is anyone interested in looking at the tight parts of the dnet cores for
> optimisation in VAX assembly? In the past, doing it would seem to be
> mostly academic, but if someone does it now, we can definitely get it into
> an official dnet client.
> 
> The public parts of the code can be gotten here:
> http://http.distributed.net/pub/dcti/source/pub-20021029.tar.gz
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> John Klos
> Sixgirls Computing Labs
>