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Date:      Thu, 23 Dec 1999 15:48:58 -0500
From:      Neil Sedlak <nwsedlak@matrix.cxi.cx>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AMD 3DNow instructions on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <19991223154858.A78790@matrix.cxi.cx>
In-Reply-To: <19991223203044.E1056@yedi.iaf.nl>
References:  <199912222226.XAA00562@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <Pine.A41.4.10.9912230759360.19456-100000@mead2.u.washington.edu> <19991223203044.E1056@yedi.iaf.nl>

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On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 08:30:45PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 08:01:26AM -0800, Brian Kraemer wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > > No.  I submitted my code to the Seti@home folks for review,
> > > they said "great, thanks!" and I've never heard anything from
> > > them again.  :-(
> > Actually, I think I read somewhere once that the SETI@home people are
> > worried that if they made optimizations to their clients, their servers
> > and staff would not be able to keep up with all the data pouring in at a
> Sjeez. If that is true they should consider how much energy is wasted
> because machines are not used to their capacity. Or alternatively the
> same work could be done with less CPUs.
*sigh* Not this pointless argument again.

This IS the FreeBSD stable mailing list, right? I don't see what SETI@Home
has to do with FreeBSD stable technical questions. Especially since people
are so quick to jump on people who should have posted to "questions".

> Really, sounds like silly reason to me.
Then you don't understand the scope of the problem. This has been argued
over and over and over and over again in other forums, do we need it here?

--
Neil Sedlak
nwsedlak@cxi.cx


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