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Subject: Re: The Appaling State of Dedicated Chess Computers

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 01:47:14 03/05/00

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On March 04, 2000 at 21:36:38, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On March 04, 2000 at 19:49:14, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>Sorry, got 'em confused.
>>
>>Maybe you could download the Genius trial version (1 sec. thinking max) and
>>compare PalmChess to it?  I guess you need two (equally overclocked ;-) Palms
>>for this... but surely you know somebody else with a Palm and a few hours to
>>kill? :-)
>>
>>Dave
>
>Ah, there's still a bit of confusion.
>
>There is the "Palm" (sometimes Palm Pilot, or just Pilot) that runs the Palm OS.
>It has a 16MHz processor that's basically an improved 68000. I think it's rated
>at 2.7 MIPS. Palms these days have between 2 and 8MB RAM.
>
>Then there are Windows CE palmtops, that run Windows CE. These have a lot of
>different processors, but a typical one is a 75MHz MIPS, rated at ~90 MIPS. RAM
>is between 4 and 32MB.
>
>So, Lang's program is for the Palm, and mine is for Windows CE, so mine has an
>inherent speed advantage of like 30x. Hopefully this is enough to make mine
>better. =)
>
>-Tom

Yes, I'm still confused -- or was, anyway.  PalmChess sounded an awful lot like
a program made to play on Palm hardware. :-)

Dave



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