Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 20:23:05 03/03/00
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On March 01, 2000 at 23:26:14, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >On March 01, 2000 at 21:48:30, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: > >>On March 01, 2000 at 21:08:52, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >> >>>Program:---------Deep Jr >>> >>>case a)----------dual 500 mhz celerons >>> >>>case b)----------single Athylon 850 mhz >>> >>>case c)----------overclocked* (what ever) to 1 gig. >>> >>>I would buy it from a custom system house with 3 yrs warranty ! >>> >>>Those are my options. Question: I have a hunch that Djr would plat at about the >>>same strength in all case's above. In any case Opinion please, what do ya think. >>> >>>Dr. Bob ? & others please. >>> >>>Thank you >>> >>> Wayne >>> >>>gonna do one of them, but which one. >> >>Wayne, >> >>Wait about two months and get a dual 700 Mhz Intel machine. The prices will be >>down quite a bit. I assume that you are going to have an older system to run >>all your MSDOS and Win95/98 applications. I don't think that you will get a >>warranty on any "overclocked" system. >> >>Some of my applications like "Dance of the Planets" by Arcscience Software are >>purely MSDos and do not run even in Windows 3.1 . My "World Champion Checkers" >>by Gil Dodgen announces a win in 86 ply in one second on a 133Mhz Pentium and it >>is purely MSDos. There are a lot of really useful programs that only run on >>slower and older systems. >> >>In any case do not think that just by speeding the search you will get >>human-like chess programs. Deep Blue had at least 500 times the speed advantage >>and humongous databases and it lacked the ability to strategize well. It's like >>a fine German or Italian touring car...Beautiful and fast but you can rarely use >>all of its' features but you know that they are there. >> >>Tim Frohlick > >Thank you Dr. Bob & Tim. The info helps me. According to prof. Hyatt a dual system should also be able to run engine vs. engine matches with pondering on without troubles, at least if there is enough memory bandwidth, which I understand as that the two processors should be able to reach memory on equal terms. That could be a pre if you wanted to do that. In principle this should also allow for analysis by two programs at the same time, could be useful too for correspondence chess or so? I don't really understand what Tim said about new systems not being able to run MSDOS applications, could somebody maybe explain that to me? Regards, Eelco
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