Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 04:34:54 10/23/97
All those alpha fans will be pleased to know that Thorsten is now going to bring a german p2 300, purchased at the last minute, to Paris WMCCC. Stupid, pointless waste of money, result of the ridiculous, last minute arms race we have each year. How much have we all spent, ahead of time, paying premium prices for this fast hardware ? Thanks very much to the firms of alpha or dec or kryotech or whoever it is, who want to pay out time and expense for their own promotional purposes by supplying a few 'amateurs' with ridiculously fast hardware; and to the 'amateurs' for asking for it in the first place so they could get way ahead of the field. How much simpler it all would have been if we could have stuck with the K6 233's ? Maybe, before time, we could make an arms race agreement for the next year ? And, one last point: if these strong amateur entries are being funded and subsidised by major hardware manufacturors, who will no doubt use any good results for their own purposes; how can the hardware manufacturor - 'amateur' combination possibly be entering the WMCCC on free entry with full amateur status ? Seems insane to me. Yet another point. AMD sponsored the tournament, produced a mass of kit; and have now been upstaged by other manufacturors supplying machines at even higher specs, and all for the cost of shipping 3 alphas to Paris only. Seems unfair and unreasonable. hardware manufactors thinking of sponsoring future events - think again. Chris Whittington
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