Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 18:47:08 06/23/00
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On June 23, 2000 at 19:17:51, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On June 23, 2000 at 17:35:19, Laurence Chen wrote: > >>On June 23, 2000 at 16:00:17, Osorio Meirelles wrote: >> >>> >>> How does the processing speed of 1 Mhz of a 8088 processor compare with 1 Mhz >>>of a Pentium III with regards to playing chess ? ( How much more faster is a Mhz >>>of the Pentium III ? ) >>How fast is a ferrari running a 10 mph compared with a volkswagen running at 10 >>mph? If you know the answer to this question, than you know the answer to your >>question. LOL. >>Laurence > >Wrong. > >It's more like: what is a ferrari's horsepower/liter vs. a trablant's >horsepower/liter? > >A 1MHz Pentium III would kick the 1MHz 8088 in the nuts. > >Considering an 8088 does about 1 instruction every few (5?) clock cycles and a >PIII does about 2 instructions per clock cycle, I bet the PIII is ~10 times >faster. > >-Tom Gee, lighten up a bit... Perhaps you are going to tell me that if I drop a ferrari and a bicycle from the same height and both objects are at rest, and I release both objects at the same time, the ferrari is going to hit the ground first !!! Yeah, right? Perhaps the person should make the question more clear... Garbage in, garbage out, that's how a computer process... LOL. Laurence
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