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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:52:56 08/08/00

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On August 08, 2000 at 10:54:48, Peter Skinner wrote:

>
>>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.
>>
>
>>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.
>>
>
>What would the cost be one one of these machines? And I am only guessing, but I
>doubt a Windows version would run one correct? Or does Windows 2000 have support
>of the alphas?


No windows for the alphas any longer.  Microsoft and Digital/Compaq had some
sort of falling out.  NT 4.0 was available for the alpha, but alpha support
was dropped...  last year I think.



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