Author: Will Willis
Date: 06:52:14 10/22/97
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Bob Hyatt wrote:
>I'm not defending myself period. track down the original alpha users,
>the
>programmers that are taking PII/300's, and so forth, as they are the
>ones
>that led me to search for something faster. I don't consider the alpha
>a
>"tournament winning advantage". I consider it a "avoiding tournament
>disadvantage" issue. There *is* a *huge* difference...
>
>
I think the major sticking point here lies with your definition of
"avoiding tournament disadvantage" vs. theirs. You're saying (if I'm
correct) that others in the past have kept raising the hardware levels
in order to gain an advantage, and you were planning on using a K6-233
until you heard about programmers who were taking PII-300's (right so
far?). Therefore you decided to "level the playing field" so to speak
by switching to an Alpha. But why a 766mhz Alpha? Why not a 500 or
whatever the current Alpha that "power users" are using? To be honest
I'm not up on the Alpha processors as much as the x86 based ones, but it
seems to me anyway that you've gone right past "avoiding tournament
disadvantage" to "obtaining decisive hardware advantage." I'm not
making any value judgements either way, obviously under the current
system you are free to use the fastest hardware you can get your hands
on. I'm just pointing out what seems to have been hinted at for some
time but not said outright.
<--Will-->
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