Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 03:10:16 09/29/99
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>>i say all the software should be rated on equal hardware , even the old ones >>that you only see at 486 and 90 mhz pent , to me it makes zero sence to try >>and take the programs ssdf thinks is good or new and only test them on the new >>hardware that the average person does not have anyway . >You don't know what you are talking about. The "old" tests were run on slower >hardware because it was state of the art at the time. They now have newer >faster hardware and are testing the new programs with the new hardware. I think the idea was another: why not test also older software on new platforms. This would clearly show that the difference in elo between some older version of some programs are only slightly inferior to more modern software, while the fact that often programs of different generation are tested only on machines available when they first came out tends to be misinterpreted as there was a big leap in the quality of the software, while, apart the 16bit-32bit, the biggest difference is due to hardware. E.g. I pretty muth guess that Genius 2.0 would be a strong opponent on new hardware for any program in the list. regards Franz
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