Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:52:35 10/23/97
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On October 23, 1997 at 07:34:54, Chris Whittington wrote: >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. Which you are now a full participant in. You made a lot of interesting arguments against doing exactly this, for exactly these reasons. >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. I think you need to explain why you put "amateur" in quotes. If you want to make a direct attack on my status, feel free, but please don't do it with punctuation. >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 ? I'd be happy to stay under a certain dollar figure, but I'm not going to pay the same amount or more for a slower computer. I use the computer after the tournament, too. >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 ? So someone who uses an AMD machine, supplied by that company, free of charge, is an amateur, and someone who uses another machine, supplied by the another company, free of charge, is not? bruce
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