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#1 2005-09-25 12:37 am
- sevens
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Client for OS 9.1?
I have a Power Mac 6500 that I'd like to put to use as more than backing up files to. Is there an OS 9 client? I know it'd be slow, doesn't bother me too much.
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#2 2005-09-25 12:33 pm
- dvpierce
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Re: Client for OS 9.1?
There is no OS 9 software for BOINC (the open source distributed computing structure that SET runs on now) hence no client software for SETI.
Well, there is a SETI Classic, but it's supposed to become unusable "any day now." Has been for almost two years, iirc. I don't know where you can download it.
If you really wanted, you could probably port the BOINC software to Mac OS 9, but...
I think there's a functional Folding@Home OS 9 client. It's been a while so I don't know for sure, but there was once.
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#3 2005-09-25 12:35 pm
- dvpierce
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Re: Client for OS 9.1?
P.S. - looks like you might be able to find a PPC Linux version, if you're geeky and really want to run SETI.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_other.php
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