Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 22:10:58 10/16/97
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On October 04, 1997 at 11:10:11, Chris Whittington wrote: >People question the fairness because the bloody thing runs at 50,000 >GigaHertz and the only way to get one is to be a student at a university >computer science department. Now it seems they can be got by anybody >crazy enough to spend the money. The end-users and opinion makers want >the WMCCC to be a reasonably fair tournament, so they can believe that >the winner is the best; but with so many categories of machine available >this is no longer possible. And we'll all be talking about the winning >PROGRAM, that's how we consider it; only now we'll have to speak it out >loud every time: the winning program and hardware combination. Its a >drag. The nieve won't understand. And so on and so on. > >Chris This is not a uniform platform championship. You're mentally tough, Chris -- I know you can deal with it. 8^) I don't see a problem with Bruce bringing a quick machine. I am sure that if some of the commercial programmers didn't have hand-coded 80x86 instructions in places than they'd be running on Alphas as well. Dave Gomboc
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