Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 12:39:05 10/23/97
For Bob and Bruce: Class above = 2 times. As in speed doubling every 18 months, RAM price halving every whenever. 2 times is a class above and unacceptable IMO. 1.5 times I personally find too much. 1.3 I could live with. Bruce says he is just short of 2 times with his 500 alpha. Plus then the AMD 233's are now going to be AMD 200's. Bob can't quantify it well because of the 64 bitness. So I'll buy this: we stop arguing over 500 alphas. IMO they are still too much, but I'll stop arguing it. Bob and Bruce are confident they'll get 500's. They are less confident that the 766's will turn up. Bob and Bruce both say they don't want to try and get a class above, just they want to stay competitive. Don't we all. So, peace proposal, you guys perform on 500 alphas, leave the 766's in their boxes, don't use them at the tourney, don't give them out to others. What Dark Thought will do, Dark Thought will do, but I hope they can run of 500 as well. So guys, how about it, peace and moderate alphas ? And for next year, lets discuss: a) no two types of sponsor machines as at Paderborn b) nobody more than 1.3 times the provided machines ... Chris Whittington
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