Author: Pierre Bourget
Date: 13:35:50 03/09/00
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On March 09, 2000 at 14:04:03, Dann Corbit wrote: >On March 09, 2000 at 11:33:06, Pierre Bourget wrote: > >>How much faster is a H7 or H8 processors at 10 mhz than we find in modern >>dedicated chess computer compare to an old 6502 processor running at 4/6 mhz ? > >The 6502 is an 8 bit processor. It would really stink, I think. > >Never heard of an H7 or H8 processor. But many older chess programs were based >on Motorola 68000 series. 68000 is 16 bit, and 68020 is 32 bit. You can't just >go by clock speed. You also need to look at the instruction set and caches size >and memory size and many other factors. > >I think some chess hardware used MIPS, but I am not sure about it. The H7 (H7000) and H8 (H8000) are the RISC processors made by Hitachi that are on almost every chess computer by Novag and Saitek today. So do you think that a 16 K program running on a H7 RISC at 10 mhz will play better and faster than a 128 K program running on and old 6502 at 6 mhz ? Pierre
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