Mersenne: Mersenne list problems?

2001-10-16 Thread Guillermo Ballester Valor
Hi, I've been trying to contact to Mersenne list to change my subscription since a week ago. There is no way to contact to www.scruznet.com host. Is there any problem?. Must we update the links?. Thanks. Guillermo. -- Guillermo Ballester Valor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Granada (Spain)

Mersenne: Question

2001-10-16 Thread Shane & Amy Sanford
Whats up with this exponent I checked out yesterday, the factor bits = 0 on my individual account report page & in my work to do file. 6810631 D* 0 DoubleCheck=6810631,0,0 Thx Shane _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www

Re: Mersenne: AthlonXP

2001-10-16 Thread Lem
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 19:57:36 -0400, in Mersenne_mailing_list you wrote: >I understand why AMD did this, at >least they have been relatively honest (that is, conservative) in choosing >their "equivalent P4 cpu speed" number. Hi! Just to say that the number is _not_ a 'Pentium4 rating', but a 'T-b

Re: Mersenne: Re: AthlonXP

2001-10-16 Thread John R Pierce
> Maybe we're not understanding what is meant by "microcode"... The only CPU I've designed was a 4-bit system that didn't use microcode to get it's work done (it was for a class), so I can't claim direct experience, but I at least thought I knew what the word microcode implied... a level of abstra

Re: Mersenne: Re: AthlonXP

2001-10-16 Thread Aaron Blosser
First, the point about XP running on a 286 if it were optimized... I was being facetious. Didn't think people would take me literally. That being said, I'll modify that and say it could run on a *386*. :) Maybe we're not understanding what is meant by "microcode"... The only CPU I've designe

RE: Mersenne: Re: AthlonXP

2001-10-16 Thread Paul Leyland
> Well, I suppose RISC is about as close as you can get to > that. Microcode, for reasons best known to someone > familiar with CPU design, is not something > you can just reprogram on the fly... I beg to differ. As someone who has written megabytes of microcode, including an entire IEEE floa

Mersenne: Message display problems [OT] (was: Re: AthlonXP)

2001-10-16 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:36:39PM -0700, Matthew Ashton wrote: >I've heard that before, and always from Outlook users. It seems to be a >bit of a bug in how outlook interprets the pgp signature. > >(Is this any better?) If there's still a problem, try set charset="iso-8859-1" in your .muttrc f