Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 15:32:54 03/04/00
Go up one level in this thread
On March 04, 2000 at 01:33:10, John Coffey wrote: >On March 03, 2000 at 19:42:49, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>I share your feelings but of course my thoughts -and surely yours too- tell me >>that for a dedicated unit to just match what an average Intel chip can do with >>a hard disk several hundreds of MB of size, you should pay an impossible amount >>of money and for no reason. So we just have cheap dedicated units that does not >>gives us 1/10 of features and strentght any freeware program gives, or we have >>very expensive units that give us half an average PC program offers for 1/20 of >>the price. No way. I love, also, old steam locomotives, but if the day comes I >>must go far away, I take one of my cars. >>Cheers >>Fernando > > >So far the responders have just pointed out what stated in my post: That >dedicated >units have not kept up with PC's. But the question is why not? If PC's can >get a hundred times faster in 13 years then why not dedicated units? Or at >least cheaper? As far as I can tell we are no better off than we were 10 to 13 >years ago. This is a great a disappointment since in the mid to late 80's some >dedicated units were as good or better than the PC's and much less expensive. > >10 years ago we had 68000 dedicated units that were master strength. My >understanding is that hardware is very cheap now. (In fact there are >alternatives that are cheaper and better.) So why can't we see a master >strength unit for less than $100? > >On a related subject: The Gameboy Advanced due out in about a year will have >a 30mhz ARM RISC processor. Although this is not the same as a Pentium-III, it >should have no problem producing master level chess if someone wants to write a >program for it. > >John Coffey I believe that me and other has pointed the reason you asked: matter of money. And mater of purpose. Even if you get a dediated unit as fast as a PC, the PC still will have many advantages as much you can use it for many tasks. So is money and is utility. Salutes from Chile Fernando
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.