Boot has another question.

[Jarhead]

Okay, got a few good deals here over the past several years, heard the yelp for help from the deep dark crevasse, figured I'd toss in a couple of cycles. Got a few questions.

1. Will a DOS client running under real DOS be any more efficient than say
Win98?

2. Any special switches/settings to make RC5 run a little faster?

3. Thinking of adding a new machine. Would a Thunderbird or a PIII at
the same clock speed crank more Gnodes/Mnodes (not sure what those are,
but figure more is better).

Semper Fidelis

 

[Diffusion]

1) No, not appreciably
2) Yes, benchmark the client, other then that, not really
3) A TBird or Duron will outperform a P3 or Celeron at the same clockspeed in RC5, not sure about OGR.

 

[dennilfloss]

You can check #3 here. 🙂

 

[Poof]

I wish someone had come up with an estimate on the cracking rate of an alpha EV5.5 on that chart.... 🙁

 

[Jarhead]

Okay, cool, thanks a bunch.

I've added my Celeron 550 (366), Celeron II 533, Celeron 450 (300A), and I
am working on an AMD K6-3 333.

If things get real hot with the Danes, I've got 6 486DX33 to toss in....
And a P266 in my pickup, but I'd need to run the cords out there...boy, wonder
if I could use one of those wireless cards to dump/pickup packets when I'm
parked out front?

 

[Jarhead]

Humm, I wonder, can a person download, say 1000 work units, go offline,
later go back online, and then flush whatever is in the out box, without
the 1000 being done yet?

If so, how do you do it?

 

[Dennis]

2 ways, one is to add the following line under Networking in dnetc.ini

dialup-watcher=passive

Otherwise, go to configure, then Buffer Options (2), Keyserver<=>client (6), then dialup link detection (9) and select option 2. If you would like it to dial out when it runs out of packets, in addition to updating buffers everytime you are online, then select option 1.

Good luck,

Dennis

 

[Jarhead]

Great, it works like a champ.

Appreciate it!