Author: James Robertson
Date: 21:44:15 08/07/00
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On August 07, 2000 at 23:50:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. How much do they cost? Are they 64-bit machines? James > > > > >> >>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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