Re: Hardware question re: 5th FOST Cup results and commentary

[Martin Mueller <mueller@xxxxxxxxx>]

>From: John Aspinall <jga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Hardware question re: 5th FOST Cup results and commentary

>At 6:50 PM -0700 9/5/99, David Fotland wrote:
> ...
>>The competition went very smoothly.  NEC provided very small,
>>slim tower computers that were very easy to move between rounds.
>
>Hmmm.  Does this mean the FOST cup is only open to programs that run on a
>certain well-known OS?

No, there are no such restrictions. In the past they have always provided
MacOS machines, and usually there were 2 or 3 Mac entries. I think last
year there was a Linux program, too. This year they limited the tournament
to 16 programs, and I guess they asked these programmers about the system.
You can always bring your own computer, if you don't like the provided
machines.

	Martin