Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 15:03:23 01/14/03
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I had dual-CPU 533MHz Alpha in my office in 1997. Actually, I believe it's 1996 machine. I still have one of those, though I did not turn it on for a yesr now... Thanks, Eugene On January 14, 2003 at 17:50:26, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On January 14, 2003 at 16:59:54, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>>I play standard games at like 5 AM in the night also... ...otherwise it would be >>>2600+ :) >>> >>>After paderborn 2003 i have time perhaps again to care for your statement. >>> >>>You *only* ran on a single cpu pro200 in 1997. >> >>The pentium pro 200 was a 1995 chip. Bruce got his sometime that Summer I >>believe. I got mine a month or two later, before the end of the year. The next >>year I started looking at quads and ordered mine near the end of 1996, and it >>arrived right after the first of the year. So I have no idea what you are >>talking >>about. Crafty played its first game over the Christmas holidays in 1994, and >>in early 1995 was running on a Sparc 20 followed by a pentium 133mhz box. >>Followed by the P6/200 in late 1995 and a year and a half later a quad pentium >>pro. >>1998 was the year of the quad xeon 400, which I received in december of that >>year. I think your memory is as bad as you claim mine is... > >I think you may be off by a year with some of this. > >>I ran on a quad pentium pro in 1997, and on a 500mhz alpha at the 1997 WMCCC >>event so your statement is _wrong_. I can easily scan the invoice for the ALR >>box >>I used. It was delivered in January of 1997. Again, you can make statements, >>but >>they have no basis in fact. > >1995 in Hong Kong, people were running on P5/90's. The hottest micro was a 100 >(Fritz, I believe). > >1995 in Paderborn, the supplied machine was a P5/120, and the hottest machine >(Lang's) was a P5/133. > >1996 in Jakarta, I believe the supplied machine was a 133, but I can't remember. > The 200 mhz P6's had been out for a while. That is what I took there. This >was the hottest machine at the event. > >The 1997 Paris event I used an Alpha that had been cooled and overclocked to 767 >mhz. Crafty ran on a 500. Shredder ran on a 533 that I brought. The supplied >Intel (actually AMD, I think) machines were 233's, but 300's existed. > >If you want a 1997 machine, you should use a single processor 533 mhz alpha, or >a 300 mhz Pentium II. > >I don't think that you were SMP in 1997, but I could be wrong. > >Getting into specific factual arguments with Vincent is only slightly less >unwise than getting into arguments with Vincent over matters that cannot be >proven. > >bruce
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