Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 22:48:10 10/23/97
I was just talking to Bob, and we came up with the following. He hasn't seen this, so if he has a disagreement, it is my problem not his. You have three tournaments, you do one each year, in sequence. 1) WCCC. Open hardware. 2) WMCCC. Open hardware, size restriction on the computer, and it has to be single-processor. The idea is to give the off-brand machines their due. 3) WUPCCC. Uniform platform (and I personally would hope uniform operating system, guess which one). The idea is to go straight down the middle of the PC mainstream and see who can do best on the machine your mom just bought at Compu-Whatever with her two thousand bucks. If someone has an exotic micro platform, you kill everyone in year two, but in year three you either port it to x86 and suffer performance problems, or you pass that year. Alternatively, since the WUPCCC would be run on a uniform platform and maybe a uniform operating system, someone could write auto-player software (not necessarily Donninger's), that would let us play the event via remote-control, possibly even extending the tournament to a larger number of rounds, or a series of two-game matches each round, or whatever. So perhaps we could do a WUPCCC every year, and have the other two events like we do now. In a year when we couldn't get sponsorship for one of the first two events, at least we could have a WUPCCC, since it would easier to organize. bruce
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