Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 01:16:35 10/22/97
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On October 22, 1997 at 03:47:16, Chris Whittington wrote: > >On October 21, 1997 at 18:51:58, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>I'm not writing this in exactly the right place, but I can't continue >>looking around for the right place, since it took me a half hour to get >>this one post up, so I can respond to it. Unfortunately, it was the >>wrong post, so I had to snip everything. >> >>The contention has been made that Bob and I are destroying this event by >>bringing powerful hardware. > >'Destroying' is your exageration. > >> More exactly, we are driving away >>commercial programmers who either can't afford or can't arrange hot >>machines. > >It wasn't asserted that YOU WERE, but that the general action of bring >super fast machines MAY be. > >> >>The specific example is Hiarcs, but MChess is also mentioned. >> >>The supplied hardware at the '95 Paderborn WMCCC was a 120 mhz P5, and >>Hiarcs and MChess brought 133 mhz P5's. This is not that big a deal, >>but the 133 mhz P5 was the best you could get at that time, and the >>supplied 120 mhz machine didn't have a lot of extras on it. > >This is not a big deal by any means. 120 -> 133 is very little. > >> >>At the previous WMCCC, Munich '93, Hiarcs brought a Sparc of some sort. Note he is an 'amateur' ! When I read this through after posting it, I think it looks like the statement "note he is an amateur" above was written by Bruce. Actually I think i wrote it, adding it after the main text body had already been done. Sorry it appeared at the end of Bruce's indents; it should have been witht he next text block. My mistake. > >Definitely bad as far as I'm concerned. Obviously an attempt to gain a >massive advantage. > >>and MChess was on a 60mhz P5. > >Likewise. > >> I have no idea how fast that Sparc was >>(it is describe only as "very fast" in the ICCAJ), but he won the event. >> I expect that both of these machines were a lot better than the >>supplied machines, which were 486/66's. > >Certainly true, and very bad. > < snipped > Chris
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