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rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes:

>In article <1991May12.213538.1544@agate.berkeley.edu> dwallach@soda.berkeley.edu (Dan Wallach) writes:
>>I'd like to bring up a different topic with regard to contests: should
>>they always be on PC's?

>  I don't see any real reason why they should or shouldn't be, except
>that a bunch of PCs is probably easiest to set up.

This year's finals were on AT&T WGS-6386 (386 based) workstations which were
connected to the jury's computer by a network. All submissions were done using
the network. This really works much better than running around with floppies.

>It seemed to work better than the PC-based contests I've been at, simply
>because of the electronic submission capabilities, and because
>compiles and prints both ran at very reasonable speeds.

Even though a 386 is often used as a PC, we too had the e-mail
capabilities, we each had our own printer and the compilation speed of a
25 MHz 386 is reasonable. (VERY reasonable, in my opinion.)
The biggest advantage, however, is that we didn't have to use MS-DOS.

>>For college contests, however, workstations would be lots nicer [ ... ]

>  Yes, I think it would be possible to run a contest with some sort of
>workstation (say, a net of diskless Sun 3/50s).

Just like the finals!

	-Raymond.


PS: Why my enthusiasm about the finals? We came in second!