A couple of days ago my Win95 machine (Celeron 333) started having
problems, the first symptom being sumout != sumin errors in Prime 95
(others started showing up in other s/w soon). After some fiddling
around I found that removing one of my RAM DIMMs seemed to restore
stability. The LL test on 10402361 is just short of 39% complete, with
an expected completion date of 12 Sept.

Is it worth the time of letting it complete?

BTW, the Pentium 166 machine I use for factoring used to take about 2
days to go up to 2**64, and seemed to average about one factor per
month, or a little less. When the limit on the numbers being received
went up to 2**65 the time went up to about 10 days. I figured the rate
of finding factors would drop to maybe a couple per year or so. But
after two Mersenne numbers with no factor up to 2**65, the PC found two
in less than hour. Who'd have thunk?

Gerry
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