Distributed.net and ud.com

[Phiebs]

distributed.net and United Devices join forces:

distributed.net and United Devices have announced a partnership which will combine the skills and experience of distributed.net with the commercial backing of United Devices. Several distributed.net volunteers are leaving their old day jobs and joining United Devices full time. United Devices will be providing distributed.net with new hardware and hosting services, as well as sponsoring a donation program that will help support distributed.net's charitable activities.

Goto http://www.distributed.net/pressroom/news-20001127.html for more info...

[MONK]

OK well here is something else.

David Anderson Director of SETI@Home

is also

Chief technical Officer of united devices

Found that reading through new scientist :)

[Cabe]

It would be kewl if all the distributed projects were available via United Devices.

[MONK]

I would have thought they would do that.

Then you could split you time say do 1 unit of each. May not get a high score on each one but it would be a good way to split you're proccessing time.

[Scarr]

Its quite easy for them to do it too as i believe they can change the project by having the program d/l a new bit to replace THINK so it can do other stuffs

[MONK]

You would have thought thats how they made it.

[Idylla]

It would be excellent if we could have our efforts spread between the 3 different projects, because atm i'm in two minds whether to run my SETI client or the UD Client on this 1.3Ghz athlon :(

/me needs another PC.

[Cabe]

Of couse a second processor would do the trick :)

/me relises most people wernt there at the auspicious birth of my sparkly new Dual PIII 1GHz machine, which is as we speak huffing away at UD.

[Scarr]

why not just run both anyway, its a 1.3Ghz athlon, its not like its Monk's P200 ;)

[Cabe]

hehehe, or my first machine

P75 with wait for it, drum role please, 8megs of ram!!!! and a 850meg HD!! :D

[Scarr]

I still have a hellishly fast AMD 486 DX4 100. I can still remember when i upgraded from a DX2 50 to the DX4. That was good :)

[MONK]

Don't run both cos they both try and running at the same time and Win 9x (not sure about 2K) has bad bad bad time sharing. You end up with not much happening at all.

And its a 233! Not a 200, that 33Mhz of pure speed you're missing there!

My first computer was an Amstrad!

My second was a Amiga 600 which was classy (number looks wrong..)

My third was a 486 DX2 66 (Oh baby yeah! X-wing and doom2 ummmm)

And I think I am right in saying you did not have a P75 first did you cabe, no I think it was an Amiga 500!

[WhiteKnight]

Monk... you had an Amiga 500+ with workbench 3.1 on it.. (or was it 2.04) anyway... it was pooh and you power supply blew up and you had my old one.

[WhiteKnight]

And hey.. if we wanna get historic..

I had:

Acorn Atom
ZX Spectrum 48k + Disciple (5 1/4" disk drive)
Amiga 500
Amiga 500+
Amiga 2000
Amiga 1200
RM Nimbus 286
Custom P120
M² P-Pro 200
Self Built Dual PII 300
Self Built Dual PIII 350
Self Built Dual PIII 515

Now

DIY PIII 866

and

Work in progress Dual PIII 1Ghz

[Scarr]

I had a Vic 20 at some point, and a ZX spectrum (the one with the rubber keys) and a double 3.5 inch drive!!

I also still have a couple of BBC Bs and a BBC master, and one of the ultimate computer games systems ever, the Grandstand game system (i don't remember the exact name). It has Pong, Tennis, Football and even a light gun!!

[Edited by Scarr on 5th May 2001 at 10:45]

[Cabe]

ok nath your kinda right

Binatone TV paddle game (parents had the damned thing for a WEDDING present)
NES (Mario 3 YES!!!)
Dragon 64 (64k mem, tape drive and MS BASIC!)
Master System
Master System II
Amiga 500 + (with 1 meg expansion board!)
Snes
P75
P133
333 Cyrix (ICK!)
450 AMD
600 Celeron
Dual PIII 1GHz Beasty, and all im doing is Web Browsing :)

[MONK]

That is true it was a 500+ and yeah the power supply did go :D

But first including consoles I had an Atari something or the other! (spelling?)

Now that had some good games!