Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 11:01:04 10/23/97
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On October 23, 1997 at 08:10:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 23, 1997 at 07:34:54, Chris Whittington wrote: >>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. > >what *is* sort of stupid is to obtain equipment that doesn't touch the >leading edge. If the WMCCC equipment was leading edge PII/300's, this >would not be possible. Or if AMD had pre-released the K6/300's for this >event, ditto. But the K6/233 is not anything special at all. So they >deserve any bad rap they get, since they are behind the rest of the >microprocessor industry in speed once again... I wouldn't call it stupid, since they are sponsoring the event and deserve thanks for that, absolutely. But yes, it does make a difference. In 1995 I showed up on a loaner machine, because the machine was a 120, and the bleeding-edge machine was a 133. I didn't think the 13 mhz would make much difference, and since I didn't need a machine at that point, I didn't buy one. Many others felt differently, which opened my eyes a bit. In 1996 I noticed that the supplied machine would be a 133. I knew all about the P6/200, having used one for quite a while. I knew that the P6 had an advantage in excess of two-fold. So I sent email to the ICCA suggesting that if the sponsor did not provide P6's, they were going to have a huge lot of people bringing boxes into the Jakarta airport. The sponsor didn't get P6's, so we had a lot of boxes in Jakarta. Same deal here. A 233 isn't AMD's fastest machine, and Intel has a 300, so we will see tons of 300's. And now that Alpha clones exist, we will start seeing those, too. I am going to bring mine, and give it to someone to use, if the 767 actually works out. Maybe you could do the same thing, Bob. bruce
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