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Subject: Re: Hardware for computer chess

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:31:48 06/09/03

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On June 08, 2003 at 17:29:30, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On June 08, 2003 at 08:25:17, Peter Berger wrote:
>
>>On June 08, 2003 at 07:43:51, Michael P. Nance Sr. wrote:
>>
>>>Tell Me how You think that a P/C with ONLY 650 mhz and ONLY 512 OF Ram is even
>>>worth considering? Wouldn't You think that a Computer like that is
>>>obsolete?>>>>Mike
>>
>>Those are not PCs so you can't simply compair the MHz numbers if you want to
>>compair speed/performance. They are not obsolete, but I agree you wouldn't want
>>to buy one (only) for computerchess at all :).
>
>You're right, an UltraSPARC IIi MHz is worth less than a Pentium 3, Pentium 4,
>or Athlon MHz. :)
>
>-Tom


I'm not sure that is totally true.  But the problem is they don't make those
3+ gigahertz processors.  They are so far behind they will never catch up.  And
I really don't believe they intend to try.




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