RE: Mersenne: usefulness and 486's

1999-05-15 Thread Henrik Olsen
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Aaron Blosser wrote: It does seem lopsided that your 486 takes 2 weeks to do what one of those beastly PIII-550's can do in 12 hours (just a guess), but that's still 12 hours less, and that beastly CPU can do a lot more LL iterations in that time, so you'd still be

RE: Mersenne: usefulness and 486's

1999-05-15 Thread Aaron Blosser
A few weeks ago, after growing tired of my mother worrying about her 486DX2-66 machine blowing up on 1/1/00, I gave in and let her have my P120 machine (with a Y2K complient bios) in exchange for her 486 machine. I now have this 486 machine doing the factoring that was being done by the