Subject: Re: Is seti worth runniing on a Pentium 200?
From: "Big J" <jehosophat@hotmail.com>
Date: 13/05/2004, 09:09
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

I use the pc for email, web browsing so if I have it on I might as well have
seti running. It will be quite a while before I get to 500 units though.


"Martin" <ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd> wrote in message
news:Bd7oc.109$rq4.69@newsfe5-gui.server.ntli.net...
Big J wrote:
HI

I have done 429 units and after over 12,500 hours processing in total.
So I
[...]
My PC is a P200 with 64Mb ram
[...]
What do you think?

Good effort and good reliability!

If you use the machine for other tasks, then it may as well stay busy
rather than idle.

If it is only running s@h, then my opinion is that you would contribute
more by contributing your electricity costs to s@h directly.

But hey, it's fun also...


Roll on BOINC soon,

Regards,
Martin

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