At 02:29 PM 2/2/99 -0000, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm hoping someone can help clear up a question for me.
>
>Is there a Unix prime search app that does what Primes95 does ?
>The graphical front end isn't needed, just the ability to configure
>it, and it run happily in the background with little need for
>manual interaction other than some way of finding out the status of
>the searching.
>
>There are 3 SunOS workstations in this office that sit doing little
>more than reading and displaying files - so they can be kept busy
>testing for primes.
You can always try to compile mprime on these. The network code might need
platform-specific tweaking but the guts of the primality testing stuff
ought to be portable C.
Has anyone gotten mprime to run on SunOS? If so, this fellow might
appreciate anything you might know about tweaking the network code for SunOS.
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