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From: declan@remus.rutgers.edu (Declan McCullagh/LZ)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: zilla info
Keywords: godzilla
Message-ID: <Feb.3.21.17.15.1991.27459@remus.rutgers.edu>
Date: 4 Feb 91 02:17:16 GMT
References: <130610@midas.encore.com>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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In article <130610@midas.encore.com>, rdenton@encore.com (Roger Denton) writes:
> I am looking for information on godzilla. Any information or pointers
> to sources would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 	Roger Denton

Take a look at last week's (Wednesday's?) New York Times.  It had an
article called "Creating Computer Godzillas" with a cute little
cartoon.  It went something like, "Researchers at the computer maker
NeXT Inc. have developed a potent program that harnesses the unused
computing power in a network of computers..."

As for documentation, it's available online in the Zilla application,
located in /NextDeveloper/Demos/Zilla.app on NeXTstep 2.0 Extended
systems.

At NeXT, they've been factoring numbers like F15 - a number with about
10,000 digits.  Nasty stuff.

Declan McCullagh
Independent NeXT Developer