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| Personal background |
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Computer nut since 1979.
Programmer or Technician or hobbiest since then.
Still dable in mainframe though its in a software emulation called Hercules.
But also play with emulations of other systems.
Involved with Seti from the 90's, was away for a bit, but im back. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Was with boinc as soon as it came out.
Would like to see mainframe options for boinc use.
I say that because 1 of my extra pc's are mainframe emulators (Hercules).
Though they are pc' they are 100% dedicated to emulation and those two pc's sit around a lot not doing much, and wont run pc apps on it if I can help it.
Do have more than enough pc's to run boinc without the above..
Though a software emulator it does run a heck of a lot faster than the real thing did when I worked on the same real setup 20+ years ago.
But thats perception not actually true and it is single user mainframe anyway.
Though experitmental, it would be a kewl thing to do.
I would probably try to do it if I tried recompling seti and etc via mainframe.
Reality is java & C and similar are available on real mainframes so its a matter of the java or C being freely available or super cheap to make it doable.
Still, it would be more of a batch processor. |
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