Re: SETI & NYC

John Thomas (treebeard@igc.org)
Tue, 25 May 1999 14:32:41 -0700

mark@unicorn.com wrote:
> Last night Windows got some kind of network error around midnight and so
> the machine was sitting there waiting for me to click on the stupid dialog
> box that Windows put up, wasting another 12 hours or so of CPU time. Ah,
> the wonders of crappy Microsoft software...
>
I'm running the program on a Mac G3 233 at 64 megs of RAM and I've so far completed 4 units, none taking more than 22+ hrs and one taking 17+ hours. If you go to the SETI@home stats page you'll see that Macs are consistently producing faster than Windows, though Unix beats both handily.
Regards,
John Thomas