Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 08:40:11 04/23/05
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On April 22, 2005 at 21:27:22, Tony Petters wrote: >I hope they force every program to use one CPU with an equal amount of RAM, >otherwise, the games are not even ! Those with long memories will recall an effort from the late 1970s promoting the idea of equal platform competition as reported in the ICCA Newsletter (the grandfather of the ICGA Journal). Tony Marsland was a main proponent; there were plenty of critics. With the need to enforce identical operating systems, compilers, CPU, RAM, etc. among all potential participants is impractical. For one, I refuse to develop, test, or run my program using any Microsoft products; others may feel the same way towards Apple, GNU, Linux, Intel, AMD, Motorola, or whatever. But here's a half serious proposal that could work: Allow each participant a fixed limit on the amount of energy used per game. This can be done by attaching an integrating wattmeter between the entrant's power supply and the rest of its system. A limit of one megajoule would be sufficient to run a modest system for an hour or two. Quad CPU competitors might have to go into power save mode instead of pondering. Huge rackmount systems would have to be very good at blitz.
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