Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:02:36 10/21/97
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On October 21, 1997 at 15:10:27, jean-christophe WEILL wrote: >On October 20, 1997 at 09:57:44, Reinhold Gellner wrote: > >>Perhaps we should try to convince the others again that a WMCCC with >>equal hardware should become standard. >> >>To illustrate this just have a look at the final standings of Jakarta, >>which correlates strongly with hardware speed. > >We had only Pentium 166Mhz at Jakarta... > >> > > >Yes, for this tournament there was 40 same AMD computers available. >If everyone wants to be fair we can play all on the exactly same >hardware.... But we know that some people wants to be at the top >at all price. This can be by chosing the fastest hardware. Just so you quantify who "some people" are. In this regard, list me as a "follower" not as a leader. My original application asked for a K6/233 machine. After seeing alphas and PII/300's popping up everywhere, I decided that to have a fair chance, Crafty needed faster hardware. I'll happily play on "equal" hardware. I won't happily play using "inferior" hardware. Why don't you guys get together in Paris and stop this? IE make it uniform platform. I'm not sure what platform, but either make it *one* specific machine, or else drop the subject and let the event run as it has since the first WMCCC event, where anything goes so long as it is a commercially available microprocessor. Either change it, or put up with it. But all the complaining is doing nothing but creating hard feelings and lots of posts here, while the original problem still remains... > >Kind of silly that again this tournament is first a search for the best >hardware and then to the best software. the "again this tournament ..." is important. specifically *again*. It has gone on forever. If enough want it stopped, make it uniform-platform and be done with it. I'll play either way. As is or uniform. > >Certainly there will be another way to associate programs and hardware >in some other kind of competition. > >Jean-Christophe
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