Mersenne: Warning, topic drift! (was Old 486 retired...)

2002-07-13 Thread John R Pierce
> My brother once stated that an old computer is still usefull, because > you can put a nice beatifull cloth on it, and use it as a coffee > table. Myself, when I will be given time from other interests, I will > study the problem of how can you control the christmas tree lamps with > an old comp

Re: Mersenne: Old 486 retired...

2002-07-13 Thread Daidalos
In a glass window close at the entrance to the Hall of Fame, should also be my old 386, running wisely at 20 Mhz. It didn't eally participate in GIMPS, but it may deserve a place as the member-to-be. It retired on Febr. last year, leaving me with some black memories of the days that I couldn't ar

Re: Mersenne: Firedaemon question

2002-07-13 Thread George Woltman
At 11:53 AM 7/13/2002 -0400, Martin Felker wrote: >This question might be more properly addressed to the Firedaemon people >but I though someone here might know the answer really quick. I am >running prime95.exe using Firedaemon RC1 for Windows XP. For whatever >reason, even though I config

RE: Mersenne: Old 486 retired...

2002-07-13 Thread Aaron
If I ever get my machines back from the FBI, I'll donate them to a Mersenne hall of fame. Or would that be better off in a hall of infamy? :) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Gareth Randall > Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 1:20 A

Mersenne: Firedaemon question

2002-07-13 Thread Martin Felker
This question might be more properly addressed to the Firedaemon people but I though someone here might know the answer really quick.   I am running prime95.exe using Firedaemon RC1 for Windows XP.   For whatever reason, even though I configured the XML file to indicate that prime95 is a con

Re: Mersenne: Old 486 retired...

2002-07-13 Thread Gareth Randall
An impressive record! Probably worth taking a photo of it. Well, the world's first web server, a NeXT computer, is in a display cabinet in a restaurant in CERN. Maybe one day there'll be a "hall of fame" (online even) for veteran GIMPS systems :-) Johan Winge wrote: > I see that the number o