Author: Uri Blass
Date: 16:49:47 03/07/04
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On March 07, 2004 at 18:47:15, steven blincoe wrote: >hi Alan >> I have: a) 1997 - Fidelity Chess Chalanger 7 - rated at that time 1300 elo. > >typo of course..1987 > > >the old chess computers of yesteryear were the building blocks of todays >screaming meamie PC progs (running on a gabillion Mhz and taking up 20 Gig of >program code) > >the chess programmers of the first dedicated units(Nelson,the >Spraclen's,Kittenger,etc..)used far less program code and had far less hardware >to work with.and yet still produced very reasonable playing programs > >i oft wonder what todays sucessful "Super Star" programmers would have produced >had they so little to work with > >im betting...it would not have been pretty > >Minimalist Regards >Steve So what? The talent to produce much with little hardware is different then the talent to produce much with good hardware. The question that interests people today is who get the best from the hardware that we use today and not who can get the best from old hardware that nobody use today. Uri
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