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Subject: Re: There Will be No WMCC 2000

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 22:55:12 04/20/00

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On April 20, 2000 at 21:55:27, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 20, 2000 at 11:24:07, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:
>
>>Hi Stefan,
>>
>>>Will you compete with DT anyway?
>>
>>Probably not -- we have not yet found time to tune "DarkThought"
>>for the x86 platform and I strongly doubt that we can come up
>>with a competitive PC version until August.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>=Ernst=
>
>
>One other point I have heard mentioned is that David has said that they are
>going to enforce the 'author must attend' rule strictly this time.  Last time
>(WMCCC) I couldn't take off for that long, and when I asked the ICCA they said
>'an author must be present' but then they changed their mind at the last minute
>for more than a couple of programs...  I certainly can't attent this summer,
>as I am teaching here...  which is a pain...  ICCA used to try to help the
>'academic types' by taking this into consideration, but now they hold these
>things right in the middle of terms and make them last way over a week...
>
>argh...

I will believe that they'll enforce that rule when I see it.

bruce




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