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Subject: Re: Hunting Hydra

Author: Earl Fuller

Date: 19:37:37 06/26/05

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On June 26, 2005 at 22:04:02, Darrel Briley wrote:

>On June 26, 2005 at 21:37:04, Peter Kappler wrote:
>
>>On June 26, 2005 at 19:34:30, Earl Fuller wrote:
>>
>>>The question still must be answered, Hydra vs Shredder.
>>>Some of you think Hydra is all but unbeatable,__i do not__:)
>>>The match that is begging to be played now is of course, Shredder vs Hydra.
>>>With Shredder on a state of the art computer that has been tested before the
>>>match__:)__would be very interesting indeed. And not some old laptop.__:)
>>>These people that have programed Shredder should hunt Hydra down and slay it.
>>>Come on Shredder team, there is someone knocking at your door !___:)
>>>earl
>>
>>
>>Absolutely!  An 8-game match would be great!  But Shredder needs a very fast
>>machine for this to be a fair match.  A quad-processor Opteron would be perfect.
>> Hydra should run on the same hardware it used to beat Adams.  Nah, 32 FPGAs is
>>too fast.  16 sounds about right.
>>
>>I'm certain that Hydra would win this match handily.  I'll even go out on a limb
>>and predict the score.  Lets see, I think Hydra would probably win 3 games and
>>draw the remaining 5, for a final score of 5.5-2.5.  Remember, you heard it here
>>first!
>>
>>:)
>>
>>-Peter
>
>I say why stop at 4 processors?  Shredder supports up to an 8 way system doesn't
>it?  So, to be really fair, give Shredder the best off the shelf hardware money
>can buy and then let the behemoths battle it out.
>
>"There can only be one" (from "Highlander" the movie)
>
>                               DB

So long as the computer is state of the art !  and they have tested it out long
before the match, no last minute changes___:)
Yeah, this could be the match we have all been waiting for___
Hey lisen, this a match that has to take place, sooner or later.
So come on Hydra team, Shredder team, lets get it on,
earl



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