Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 09:24:59 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, Brian Kraemer <kraemer@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD 3DNow instructions on FreeBSD Message-ID: <v04220800b488ddeea6ec@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <19991223203044.E1056@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <199912222226.XAA00562@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <Pine.A41.4.10.9912230759360.19456-100000@mead2.u.washington.edu> <19991223203044.E1056@yedi.iaf.nl>
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At 8:30 PM +0100 1999/12/23, Wilko Bulte wrote: > Sjeez. If that is true they should consider how much energy is wasted > because machines are not used to their capacity. Or alternatively the > same work could be done with less CPUs. > > Really, sounds like silly reason to me. Actually, no it's quite sane -- it's called quality control. They can't be certain that they don't have someone screwing around with the statistics if they're not running exactly the same code everywhere. This has been proved repeatedly on similar projects, not just SETI@home. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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