Author: Mark Young
Date: 13:29:03 06/05/99
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On June 05, 1999 at 16:11:44, Roger D Davis wrote:
>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 The notes are probably just out of date.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.
I am just asking a question. Your answer is not possible, because it was changed
from Qaud PII 400 xeon to 486/66. I don't assume intentionality, the change in
the finger notes do. The question is why.
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>Roger
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>On June 05, 1999 at 15:04:20, Mark Young wrote:
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>>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.:) )
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>>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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