When Boredom leads to Registry Editing..........

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BOINC WIKI

Do You have the name of the manufacturer that builds the PCIe backplane for the External Video Cards?

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I think e`s gone BOINCers

I have still got two machines running 98se,
but I dont tell anyone about it . :)

LOL! I actually came across a Vic-20 @a yard sale 3 weeks ago. Had a floppy & cassette drive also. All three in boxes w/ all original manuals. He wanted $115 for all. (no monitor).
Unit was clean as a whistle. Claimed it worked, offered to let me take it home & try before paying.

Was SOOOO tempted as a novelty since I used one in computer lab in Jr. High.

Then I thought...."what the heck would I do with it???? ".
Not like I'm going to write BASIC to use it. God knows I don't remember much of THAT any more, or Pascal for that matter.

So, $115 for a vintage novelty paper weight.
Practicality won out in the end.

Would have been a nice specimen for someone's PC collection, however.

I'm still trying to figure out how to get my Apple IIe to run BOINC.

If they were not at bandwidth/server limits now. I'd like to see a BOINC app for my phone. :D

If they were not at bandwidth/server limits now. I'd like to see a BOINC app for my phone. :D

Like Boincoid perhaps?

Joe

If they were not at bandwidth/server limits now. I'd like to see a BOINC app for my phone. :D

Like Boincoid perhaps?

Joe

I remain unconvinced that it will ever work well.

1) No math co processor. This makes the processing for math intensive projects thousands of times slower for the same clock speed.
2) Lower clock speed than for desktop or lap top computers.
3) Drastic reduction in clock speed if the user is not active at the keyboard.
4) No cooling.

Is it really worth the bother to attempt for a general cruncher?

To get any kind of speed, the phone will have to be kept "active" and that kills battery life. There may be a very few specialist applications where a phone makes some kind of sense. I really doubt that any of the CPU intensive projects fall in this category.

If they were not at bandwidth/server limits now. I'd like to see a BOINC app for my phone. :D

Like Boincoid perhaps?

Joe

I remain unconvinced that it will ever work well.

1) No math co processor. This makes the processing for math intensive projects thousands of times slower for the same clock speed.
2) Lower clock speed than for desktop or lap top computers.
3) Drastic reduction in clock speed if the user is not active at the keyboard.
4) No cooling.

Is it really worth the bother to attempt for a general cruncher?

To get any kind of speed, the phone will have to be kept "active" and that kills battery life. There may be a very few specialist applications where a phone makes some kind of sense. I really doubt that any of the CPU intensive projects fall in this category.

I doubt a phone could get much of a RAC, but the idea here is that there is a lot of processing power out there in what is a ubiquitous device. Each phone is fairly worthless as a cruncher, but there are many phones.

The BOINCOID developers talk of crunching only when on the charger.

If they were not at bandwidth/server limits now. I'd like to see a BOINC app for my phone. :D

Like Boincoid perhaps?

Joe

I remain unconvinced that it will ever work well.

... There may be a very few specialist applications where a phone makes some kind of sense. I really doubt that any of the CPU intensive projects fall in this category.

But also note, the java/Android porting of Boinc may well get used far beyond just mobile phones.

Happy crunchin',
Martin