:: 21-Dec-1999 01:44 (Tuesday) ::
The following clients have been updated/added:
– dnetc-freebsd-x86-elf.tar.gz FreeBSD x86 v2.8004.450 [ELF/MT/MMX-CSC]
– dnetc-win32-x86.zip Win32 x86 v2.8004.450 [MMX-CSC]
– dnetc-solaris-sparc.tar.gz Solaris 2.x [Sparc/UlraSparc/MT]
For those of you who always send me e-mails asking what has changed,
here you go:
2.8000
——
2.8004.450 new: macos port including Altivec core support (twice as
fast as MMX on otherwise comparable hardware)
2.8003.449 chg: win32: client sleeps for 10secs immediately after starting
as service to allow the rest of the system to fire up first
fix: all: not being able to -update if offlinemode
fix: solaris: time stamps/elapsed time on MP boxes
fix: all: clients will again reset work if the core # changes
(functionality was lost in 2.8002.446 – reset if client
version or platform changes was unaffected).
2.8003.448 new: x86: 50% faster CSC MMX core added. ‘6bit – bitslice’
replaces ‘6bit – called’
fix: all: lines in mail/logfile are no longer truncated
fix: all: pause by signal (by user) and pause by filename
are additive, that is, pause remains in effect as
long as either one is in effect.
fix: all: completed/summary time is now elapsed wall clock
time again
fix: x86: Cyrix 6×86 auto-selects CSC core #3 now.
imp: all: threads no longer check external flags for shutdown/
pause state. Flags are ‘pushed’ instead, which reduces
cache footprint.
fix: win32: win95B doesn’t have a ‘Lucinda Console’ TrueType
font, so client avoids it now.
chg: many: DES cores are no longer included
imp: all: benchmarks have greater time precision (no longer
overshoot the end of the bench period)
chg: *nix: client setsid()s and dups std handles to /dev/null
when started with -quiet/-hide
fix: dun config collision with no-networking resolved
(dun was still active even if the networking was disabled)
Happy cracking!
Moose