Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 13:11:44 06/05/99
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An inside joke, a running gag, and a protest all assume intentionality, and you
know what they say about assumptions. Anyway, I don't think there's any reason
to be confined by these possibilities. I think in this case the answer is "None
of the Above." The notes are probably just out of date. That is probably the
most parsimonious and least implicitly hostile explanation.
Roger
On June 05, 1999 at 15:04:20, Mark Young wrote:
>I had the time today to log the top ICC chess programs and read their finger
>notes as I do from time to time. When I came across Crafty's (Bob Hyatt's finger
>notes) Bob's finger notes claim Crafty is running on a 486/66 with 4 MB ram, and
>a 40MB hard drive. At the same time it is using 20GB of EGTB's (Ahhh.
>compression software.:) )
>
>Is this just a joke or some kind of protest or just plain sarcasm for other
>underreporting their hardware? A possible example Mofongo, claiming to run on a
>PII 450 and running Crafty has a rating of 3210, at the same time Crafty (bob's
>crafty) running on qaud Xeon PII 400 has a rating of 2969. {Bob?)
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