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Subject: Re: CB sponsors entry of _four_ programs to WMCCC 2000!?

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:
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>>>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.
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>>I believe that the rules state it must be a processor that can be readily
>>available to the public..
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>>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

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>>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..
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>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.
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>>I of course could be very wrong.



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