the reason the seti folks do not support the VAX is because we don't do
IEEE floating point. For their purposes, the potential mismatch of results
is too risky to be worth the extra cpu time. 

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, John wrote:

> > I would rather have a VAX/VMS client for SETI@Home.  The mission is more
> > appealing to me than that of distributed.net.
> 
> They don't have clients for ANY alternative OS or CPU. They're also quite
> vocal about making people understand that it's not worth their time
> because alternative CPUs and OSs don't do enough work...