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Subject: Re: 24 participants computer-chess tournament in germany !

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 16:47:44 11/21/97

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On November 21, 1997 at 19:37:14, Peter Coleman wrote:

>On November 21, 1997 at 16:58:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>>Hiarcs6 plays on MAC !!
>>
>>Just for the record, there are plenty of Macs around that are much
>>faster
>>than the best Intel has to offer.  The PPC is quite impressive.  So this
>>might be a way to pick up a good bit of hardware speed over the PII/300
>>machines...
>
>The PPC is no longer that inpressive compared to a Pentium 2. Hiarcs
>lack of showing would tend to support this...

friend of mine dropped in with a (I believe) 265 or 285 ppc, and it was
significantly faster than the PII/300 we have...

All depends on the PPC chip of course.  But there are some *screamers*
coming out very soon, that will be 2x-3x faster than the PII/300...



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