Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:02:23 10/22/97
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On October 22, 1997 at 13:11:19, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On October 22, 1997 at 09:27:59, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>I've also asked this before, but no answer. I'll ask again: "how fast >>is not too fast". IE what is the maximum allowable mhz you'd want to >>see? >>Why is a PII/300 not an issue when it is significantly faster than a >>K6/233? >>why is a 500 (or 766mhz) alpha a problem, when my 500 mhz machine is >>probably not even 1.5x the PII/300? >> >>Again, "how fast is too fast"??? > >To save Chris the trouble, I think he would argue that any machine you >bring that is faster than the tournament machine, is too fast. > >I mentioned a P5/60 vs a 486/66, which was the "fast" machine vs the >"standard" machine in 1993, and he said this was unfair, too. > >bruce I don't agree, because he said that the P5/133 vs P5/120 was O.K. and that the PII/300 vs the AMD K6/233 was "ok". But a 500mhz alpha (my case) vs the AMD is "not ok." I was looking for quantification of what exactly "ok" means...
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