Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 07:40:51 03/28/00
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On March 28, 2000 at 01:41:24, Tony Hedlund wrote: >On March 27, 2000 at 15:59:07, Jonathan Lee wrote: > >>Thanks for when. >>Will there be the lastest hardware faster than 450MHZ PIII? (1 Gigahertz???) >>Jonathan (30th message) > >No. We have just played with the 450 hardware for 6 months or so. We buy the >computers with our own money. We can't afford to by new hardware every 6-12 >month. We usually have a two year cykle. > >Tony I believe that testing programs with Hardware of 450 Mhz PIII or AMD K6 II 450 Mhz is more than sufficient, since more than 70% of the people in the World has computer with equal or lesser capacity. And this test is done to give an idea of the playing strenght of the top playing programs such as Fritz 6a Junior 6a etc.. to the majority of the people, not just the few including myself who can afford to have the latest computer and the best 3 programs available.
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