Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 02:50:28 10/22/97
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On October 19, 1997 at 06:08:30, Alessandro Morales wrote: >Imagine a 50x50 cm wooden-like sensor board, based on an AMD K6 166 Mhz, >with a little display, a simplified OS, that has a lot of RAM for hash >tables and it is compatible with some kind of card-programs, producted >by all top >level chess programmers and sold at the same price of a PC program.... >:-) (Something like consoles). A nice business both for dedicated chess >manifacturers and programmers!...(They cold still offer hardware >improvements >and software updates.) > >Without MONITOR , HD , VGA , SOUND CARD etc. it could have an affordable >price. I think that the board is not strictly needed, I would prefere a poket-calcualtor/palmtop-like object to be able to carry it the train or so. I think also that a K6 would be damn bad cause of the huge power consumption, and I don't want a huge battery, the IDT-C6 (yapc*) is a much better candidate, since it requires much less power (11 Watt at 200 MHz, against 15 for the iP200MMX, 18 for the M2 and 21 for the K6) and is in the P200 range. For such a litlle-portable-chess-monster that CPU would be fine, [well I still loose most of the games against Fritz 4 on a K5 Pr133 at blitz....] But then at a tournmanet (for humans :-) we would need cameras in the restrooms.... bye Franz * yapc=yet another pentium clone. Take a look at http://www.winchip.com/. [disclamer: I have no relation with IDT].
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