Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:06:17 08/08/00
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On August 08, 2000 at 00:44:15, James Robertson wrote: >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 > All alphas are 64 bit processors. A guess would put them in the $10,000 (US) price range. They are the hottest things around, at present. >> >> >> >> >>> >>>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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