Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 06:41:19 10/22/97
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On October 22, 1997 at 08:59:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 22, 1997 at 05:00:26, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>>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. >>> >>>Kind of silly that again this tournament is first a search for the best >>>hardware and then to the best software. >>> >>>Certainly there will be another way to associate programs and hardware >>>in some >>>other kind of competition. >>> >>>Jean-Christophe >> >>Right. If ICCA is not willing to give exact limitations concerning >>groups, status and speed of machines, there will be other >>events/locations/organisations to deal with the problem ! > >that's pretty funny, in fact. It is *not* the ICCA that makes these >rules of course... they were formulated by the participants over many >years. You might also notice that the commercial programs *always* run >on something faster than the base machine supplied for the event. So I >have no idea who you are criticizing here, just don't criticize *me* for >"following". Criticize Mark, Ed, Frans, et. al. Check out *their* >machines >in past events. Then you'll see why I think this is funny. Someone not >knowing what is going on would get the impression that Bruce and I have >started a technology war. We didn't *start* anything at all... No, they just escalated to poision gas, and then had a de facto arms limitation agreement. You then took it to nuclear. This thing went in stages with de facto pauses. YOU guys with the alphas are the ones who've started a NEW ROUND of arms race. Chris
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