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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