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Subject: Re: Important announcements: Free Hardware, drinks and snacks at WCCC

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 17:05:25 10/23/03

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On October 23, 2003 at 18:47:36, Jason Waugh wrote:

>On October 23, 2003 at 04:21:38, Richard Pijl wrote:
>
>>I doubt whether anyone would use this configuration:
>>- Old, slow processor
>>- only one processor (although that is not a problem for some)
>>- Small amount of memory.
>
>
>Is this a hardware battle... or a battle to see which SOFTWARE can win?  I think
>it's wonderful to see who has the best ideas and the programming chops to
>implement them rather than who can afford the best equipment.  Seems a lot more
>fun to me.

I more or less agree, but sometimes we shouldn't stand in the way of other good
initiatives.
Some choose to spend a lot of time developing good books and SMP support, they
should be given a chance now and then to use this advantage or the incentive to
develop it is gone.
That would be even worse for computer chess, IMO.

Most of all I guess the answer depends on what kind of machine you use yourself,
if you don't have a dual you're bound to find dual progs silly :)

-S.

>Jason W.



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