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To: Dan3 who wrote (143976)	9/23/2001 5:02:02 PM
From: tcmay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Dan the ignorant writes: "Those were the best results for each processor. Deal with it." I didn't see you report any "best" results from AMD products...rather, you reported Intel results to show some perceived cruddiness compared to the (now defunct) Alpha. "There are fewer P4 results because buyers with enough knowledge of PCs to make intelligent purchasing decisions (SETI at home users are more sophisticated than typical PC users) don't buy P4s - and the lack of SETI @ home results for P4 is graphic evidence of the buying habits of individuals with more than average PC knowledge." Wrong on two counts: 1) SETI AT HOME is a program for using idle CPU cycles. Most such cycles are for desktop machines which are used, when used at all, for Microsoft Office sorts of applications. Very few are the most expensive of all CPUs, which are, understandably, heavily used at all times. It is hardly very surprising that the CPU from a $10K workstation outperforms a $1K PC. (A better measure is to compute the SETI-work/processor $$) 2) As for "sophistication." The SETI screen saver work derives from the key-cracking work. That key-cracking work, which broke important cyphers, derived from a project I started in 1993. (Intel talks as if it invented "peer-to-peer," but those who know about the past know better.) So I know whereof I speak. --Tim May