ENVIRONMENT

Hardware

ALTEC, a Greek computer wholesaler, is providing the PCs for all contestants.
Each computer features:
  • 3 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor with 512K of cache
  • 512MB DDR RAM
  • 80 GB HDD 7.2k rpm
  • 17-inch TFT monitor
  • Microsoft keyboard
  • Microsoft optical mouse
  • PS/2-style 6-pin mini-DIN female jacks for keyboard and mouse connectors
  • 2 USB 2.0 ports
  • DVD-RW (-/+)
  • 3.5-inch 1.44MB floppy
  • 9-pin (D-9 male) serial port
  • 25-pin (D-25 female) parallel port
Contestants are allowed to bring their own keyboards and pointing devices, and may bring CD-ROM blanks to back up their data during the appeals period.

Installed Software

The contestant will be able to boot to either Windows XP Pro or Red Hat 9.0 Linux.

Windows XP Pro:
  • rhide 1.5
  • free pascal IDE 0.9.2
  • fpc 1.0.10 (Free Pascal compiler)
  • gcc/gpp 3.2.2 (from DJGPP)
  • gdb 5.3 (from DJGPP)
  • make 3.79.1 (from DJGPP)
  • emacs 20.5 (from DJGPP)
  • ctags 20.5 (from DJGPP)
Redhat Linux 9:
  • Rhide 1.5
  • fpc 1.0.10 (Free Pascal compiler)
  • gcc/gpp 3.2.2
  • gdb 5.3
  • ddd 3.3.1
  • make 3.79.1
  • emacs 21.2
  • xemacs 21.4
  • vim 6.1
  • joe 2.9.7
  • ctags 5.4
  • mc 4.6.0
  • mozilla 1.2
  • lynx 2.8.5
  • Gnome 2.2
  • KDE 3.1