Computer technology marches on, and soon the productive life of classic
SETI@Home will end. By the time that happens, I probably will have switched
over to BOINC.

    But does the classic version have to vanish completely?

    I've lately had the thought that it would be fun to keep the screen saver
version of classic SaH alive -- purely for demonstration purposes, of course.
It does look impressive on a computer screen. Also it would still be a way of
comparing the performance of different systems.