Richard McDonald writes:
A bunch of Macs in my life would love to add to the effort, along
with my PCs. I've found the MacLucas program, which was never very
useable, is now unuseable; presumably the exponents are too large.
The MacLucasUNIX program of the mers package is a direct descendant of
John Sweeney's MacLucas program and I have just been informed by a Mac
user that the current version, v6.1, compiles and passes the Makefile
tests, so give it a try it you like. It will run best on PowerPC CPUs
(Mac or not), since that's what John Sweeney tuned the code for, but
don't expect it to be as fast as George Woltman's programs.
http://www.garlic.com/~wedgingt/mers.tgz
Someone else tells me that Navigator and IE both download that in text
rather than binary mode, so I've also named it 'mers.tar.gz', which
should be correctly recognized as binary. WinZip will likely not
recognize the latter, however; rename it to the former first.
I can't find anything online about efforts to produce a proper
client (network enabled & stable) for Mac, which surprises me.
MacLucasUNIX is not network-capable, but there are people (including
me, slowly) that are working on adding PrimeNet support, but without
support for the Prime95 style checksum to verify results.
Will
http://www.garlic.com/~wedgingt/README.html
http://www.garlic.com/~wedgingt/mersenne.html
