Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 11:14:16 10/22/97
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On October 22, 1997 at 14:02:23, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 22, 1997 at 13:11:19, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On October 22, 1997 at 09:27:59, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>I've also asked this before, but no answer. I'll ask again: "how fast >>>is not too fast". IE what is the maximum allowable mhz you'd want to >>>see? >>>Why is a PII/300 not an issue when it is significantly faster than a >>>K6/233? >>>why is a 500 (or 766mhz) alpha a problem, when my 500 mhz machine is >>>probably not even 1.5x the PII/300? >>> >>>Again, "how fast is too fast"??? >> >>To save Chris the trouble, I think he would argue that any machine you >>bring that is faster than the tournament machine, is too fast. >> >>I mentioned a P5/60 vs a 486/66, which was the "fast" machine vs the >>"standard" machine in 1993, and he said this was unfair, too. >> >>bruce > >I don't agree, because he said that the P5/133 vs P5/120 was O.K. and >that the PII/300 vs the AMD K6/233 was "ok". But a 500mhz alpha (my >case) >vs the AMD is "not ok." I was looking for quantification of what >exactly >"ok" means... You can have a 'qualification'. Fast alphas are a CLASS ABOVE. Chris
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