From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 1 15:53:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA04674 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 15:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hod.tera.com (hod.tera.com [206.215.142.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA04669 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 15:53:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [206.215.142.62]) by hod.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA06488; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 15:53:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA24608; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 15:53:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608012253.PAA24608@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: MASM, and coff, and elf, oh my! To: garyh@agora.rdrop.com (Gary Hanson) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 15:53:08 -0700 (PDT) Cc: fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Gary Hanson at "Aug 1, 96 02:36:22 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Gary Hanson: > [[ ... ]] > > BTW, the app is George Woltman's mersenne-prime search program, and > it'd be nice to have some BSD systems using spare cycles to look for > the largest prime number in the world. :-) > > If we could do this, if someone could spare his system for a few months [[ ??? ]] finding a new mersenne prime would cause major excitement. The last mersenne prime that I know of beind discovered was done by Dave Slowinski at Cray Research in Chippewa Falls, WI. ...I think I was still at Cray when Dave found the prime. gary PS: (And then again, several larger mersenne primes may have been found since then... ) > > <><> "There are two cardinal sins from which all the others spring: Impatience and Laziness." -- Franz Kakfa