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Subject: Re: 4/6/00; Will there be computers faster than 450MHZ PIII?

Author: blass uri

Date: 09:20:50 03/28/00

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On March 28, 2000 at 10:40:51, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>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.

I disagree.

I want to know the ability of programs time control that is slower than
tournament time control on my pIII450 because I use programs for correspondence
games and in order to know it testing program on the latest computers is
important because 120/40 on the latest hardware is similiar to 240/40 on
pIII450.

Uri



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