Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 17:40:54 01/22/00
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On January 22, 2000 at 20:15:34, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 22, 2000 at 19:15:18, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On January 22, 2000 at 17:59:10, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>Never done any hardware design/testing, eh? They could test a _lot_ of things >> >>I have, and I would avoid a situation where my mobility was "accidentally" tuned >>way too high. >> >>There's a reason why the top programmers don't change their programs for a few >>months before major tournaments... >> >>-Tom > >One "top programmer" changed his program 20 minutes before the first round of >the 1983 WCCC event, and went on to win the tournament. We had to do that as >we were given our first glimpse of the parallel machine 2 weeks before the >tournament. Harry was debugging while I was driving to NYC. Hsu had the same >problem with DB2 due to some ugly fab shop errors... > >It happens... it would be nice to have a year to get ready. They hardly had >a month... They should have had software diagnostics in place to see if the chips were working right, and if they weren't, what was wrong with them. -Tom
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