Subject: Re: If this is the official seti NG
From: Husky
Date: 19/03/2005, 04:22
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 03:33:57 -0000, gheston@hiwaay.net (Gary Heston) wrote:

In article <neml319helvadcgfv7lhbmcbl64o7nknsf@4ax.com>,
Husky  <cbminfo@toast.net> wrote:
 [ ... ]
setiathome-3.03.alpha-winnt-cmdline.exe
Assuming this is the seti necessary for a P4 on XP pro, why can't they just
name them according to processor or OS.
tnx.

It does, in a way--Windows 2000 is NT 5.0; Windows XP is NT 5.1.

As far as processor, that executable will run on 386SX/DX, 486SX/DX/DX2/DX3,
Classic Pentium, Pentium MMX, Pentium II/II Xeon/III/III Xeon, P4/P4Xeon,
Itanium, K5, K6, K7, Athlon, Athlon XP, Athlon MP, Opteron, Cyrix MII,
and a few more.

That's at least 23 distinct CPUs. Which one should they name it after?

:-)


Gary

Why create something that runs on 23 different things, if it will run on any of
them ?
Re-creating the wheel 23 times ?