An impressive record! Probably worth taking a photo of it. Well, the world's first web server, a NeXT computer, is in a display cabinet in a restaurant in CERN.
Maybe one day there'll be a "hall of fame" (online even) for veteran GIMPS systems :-) Johan Winge wrote: > I see that the number of Intel 486 now has decreased to under one hundred, > and today one the number decreased further as I retired my trusty "old486". > This machine joined GIMPS early in 1999 and has trial factored eleven > mersenne prime candidates since then. Only one factor was found: on May 14, > 2000 it reported that M11941547 has 9833383992510866143 as a factor. Well, > now it has worked enough. In its place I have added a shiny new 2 GHz > Pentium 4. Quite a change I may say... > > Cheers! > -- Johan Winge Yours, -- ======= Gareth Randall ======= _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers