New features in Version 14.4 of mprime
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1)  The Pentium Pro factoring code is nearly twice as
    fast compared to the previous version.

New features in Version 14.2 of mprime
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1)  Corrected floating point round-off bugs in the factoring code that
    affected testing factors larger than 2^59.
2)  The Pentium factoring code is 5-10% faster.
3)  When an error is detected the program now waits 5 minutes before 
    restarting from the last save file.
4)  The detection of corrupt save files has improved.

New features in Version 14.1 of mprime
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1)  The Pentium factoring code is 5% faster.

New features in Version 14.0 of mprime
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1)  The program can now check exponents up to 5.26 million!  To test
    these big exponents, you will need a new database and great patience.
2)  The per-iteration error checking code has been improved.  It will
    detect more errors and automatically restart from the previous save
    file.
3)  The -c option now has a number for Cyrix machines.  There is no
    Cyrix-specific code.  This change does provide better estimates in
    status option.
4)  There is a machine torture test option which runs a continuous Self Test.
    This is great for "burning in" a new machine.
5)  The time estimates in status option have been changed slightly.
    Hopefully, the new estimates are a little more accurate.
6)  The self test option now takes nine hours.

New features in Version 13.3.2 of mprime
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1) It's smaller.  Mprime is no longer linked
   with the static C runtime library.  The staticly
   linked version is still available for a.out Linux systems.
2) Improved error checking should detect more
   hardware problems with fewer false alarms.

New features in Version 13.1.2 of mprime
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1) Faster!  Support for non-power-of-2 FFT lengths
   has been added.
2) The -I switch has been added.  This switch prints
   a status line to the results file every N iterations.
   For example, -I50000 will print a line to the results
   file after Lucas-Lehmer iteration 50000, 100000, etc.
3) The program now creates two backup files in case one
   is corrupted during a system crash.

New features in Version 1.3 of mprime
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1) A minor bug in the status report code is fixed.
2) The -L and -P switches have been implemented, but
   not tested.  The -L switch takes a floating point
   number as an argument.  If the load as reported in
   /proc/loadavg rises above this threshold, then the
   program pauses for as many seconds as specified by
   the -P switch.  This allows you to free up mprime's
   memory for other tasks to use during high load
   conditions.

New features in Version 1.2 of mprime
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1)  A minor bug in the Pentium factoring code has been fixed.

New features in Version 1.1 of mprime
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1)  Factoring is now 6% faster due to a 16 pass
    process rather than a 2 pass process.

New features in Version 1.0 of mprime
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1)  Initial release - all features are new!
