Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:50:01 08/07/00
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On August 07, 2000 at 23:29:23, Peter Skinner wrote: >>Graham has been busy and has lined up an alpha from Compaq... but a real >>alpha and not a PC-alpha... >> >>more after I check out the model number, etc. > >I believe that the rules state it must be a processor that can be readily >available to the public.. > >How available are these alphas? Simply call Compaq and tell them you want to buy an XP1000 workstation. They will happily ship you one _right now_. About the same size as a PC in a mid- size tower case. > >I will email the person in charge to clarify this, because the way I understand >it, the computers used must be of the commercial variaty, being an Intel, or AMD >machine.. Nope.. David was originally going to make it "uniform platform" but that fell through. The rules have _always_ been a single-cpu commercially available microprocessor. A couple of years ago some of the participants had Kryo-ed alphas. Crafty ran on a 21164 in Paris. > >I of course could be very wrong.
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