Subject: Re: Hardware Seti Card
From: Tony Sivori
Date: 06/09/2003, 15:32
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 16:49:57 +0100, Filipe Santos wrote:
I own a Pentium III machine, so my units take hours to process. I blame
the obsolete Pentium III architecture and I thought that a dedicated
hardware expansion card could be a solution. The card could have its
Seti math processor and all the cache necessary. The most expensive ones
could also support dual Seti math processors and other technology
wonders. I guess that the driver of this hardware device could be the
well know screen saver.

Why such a card hasn't been made?

This was discussed here years ago, try Googling for it. A card was briefly
offered to the public, and if memory serves, none were ever actually
delivered.

If you stop to think about it, pretty much what your asking for is a P4
(since you're unhappy with your PIII times) or its equivalent on a PCI
card. That isn't going to happen anytime soon, and if it did you wouldn't
like the cost.

-- Tony Sivori