Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:54:32 01/22/00
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On January 22, 2000 at 20:40:54, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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 There are no software diagnostics to detect some of their problems. Cross-talk and capacitive signal coupling because runs were too long in the ASIC, etc.
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