From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 23 4: 0:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 245FF14F22 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 04:00:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12842 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 13:00:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 13:00:08 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912231200.NAA12842@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD 3DNow instructions on FreeBSD Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kent Stewart wrote in list.freebsd-stable: > > On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > I'm still waiting for a response from the Seti@home folks. > > > They have all the code, but they seem to ignore it. > > They are probably trying to run the same code on all of the systems. > That includes other machines such as HP's, SGI's, Sun's, and etc. I > wouldn't accept coding for 3DNow unless it ran on all of the systems. Even if a significant part of their supporters could compute results a lot faster? Well, if that's true, they could at least say so. I think the NIH theory sounds more realistic. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message