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Re: MISC-d Digest V98 #16


Jeff Fox wrote:
> 
> Dear MISC Readers,
> 
> >From: rw20@cornell.edu
> >
> >Will there be a hacker's version that allows one to program the iTV box?
> >I'd buy one in a second for about $200-$300 just to have a nice platform
> >to experiment with a MISC chip.
> >
> >Anyone else interested?
> >
> >Russ
> 
> I am.
> That's what I've been doing since I don't have any working F21 yet.

Look at http://www.meganet.com. ;)
There is a task that well suited for massive parallelism - one million
dollars
challenge to crack an ancryption algorithm.
I think it isn't as elegant as chess play, but at least it may be
profitable. ;)

sz