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Date:      Sun, 2 Mar 1997 18:23:49 -0500 (EST)
From:      Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
To:        taob@risc.org (Brian Tao)
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.2 Compiler slower than 2.1? (was RSA 56-bit key challenge)
Message-ID:  <199703022323.SAA00588@crh.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970302181005.698B-100000@alpha.risc.org> from Brian Tao at "Mar 2, 97 06:19:55 pm"

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> > What IS vex anyway?  And how did it become associated with us
> > FreeBSD folk?
>
>     vex.net is an ISP in Toronto where many of the locals ended up
> after a big telco swooped in a shut down our previous home, io.org
> (see http://www.vex.net/~taob/ex-io.html if you want the gory,
> political details).  Anyhow, it's my fault FreeBSD domainates the
> list.  ;-)  I posted a message to freebsd-chat earlier this week
> wondering if anyone else was participating in RSA's challenge, and
> invited anyone with a spare CPU to join us.  :)
>
>     Even though we started late, we are now among the top 10 teams in
> terms of number of key blocks examined, making us one of the fastest
> rising ones in this effort.  So far, the fastest CPU's are all running
> FreeBSD.  ;-)

So do we have enough pull to get them to stick a PoweredBy FreeBSD logo on the
page? :)

-Crh

       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

                         http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich



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