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Subject: Re: ChessGenius/Visor Prism vs Fidelity EAG/Mach III , 4.5 - 5.5

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 21:20:13 01/02/01

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On January 02, 2001 at 21:52:13, Mark Rawlings wrote:

>On January 02, 2001 at 21:03:23, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On January 02, 2001 at 19:19:52, Mark Rawlings wrote:
>>
>>>Which one of the palm-type devices plays the strongest game of chess?  I know
>>>some of them have processors faster than 33 mHz, however, I'm not sure if they
>>>run Chess Genius.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Mark
>>
>>
>>
>>Only the Palm handhelds running PalmOS can run ChessGenius for Palm. This
>>includes the Palms by US Robotics, the Visors by Handspring, the CliƩ by Sony,
>>and some other PalmOS computers (including some cellular phones).
>>
>>I think the number of PalmOS computers currently in use in the world is well
>>over 12 millions.
>>
>>As far as I know, the fastest PalmOS computer currently runs at 33MHz. Maybe
>>it's possible to overclock it (the DragonBall processor which is the heart of
>>all PalmOS computers allows this very easily by sofware).
>>
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>Thanks.  I was thinking of the hand-held devices like the HP Jornada (about the
>same size as a palm) that has a 133 mHz processor.  It runs a version of
>windows, though, and not the palm os.
>
>Mark



And its processor is not a 68000-compatible. So ChessGenius for Palm won't run
on it.

Buy a Palm, they are much more useful than WinCE devices.



    Christophe



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