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Subject: Re: Dead Wrong!

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 17:49:12 07/20/00

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On July 20, 2000 at 15:19:46, Chris Carson wrote:

>Dead wrong!
>
>You do not list the results of DT against any programs/hardware,
>I agree with that.
>
>1988 to 1994 DT dominated programs on 386 and 486 hardware.  With
>me so far, not P90.  Perhaps 90% against 386/486, but not P90.
>
>In 1995 DT played a few games against P90, lost to Fritz and drew
>with Wchess.
>
>Your argument is that DT beat everything 90%, not true for P90
>systems.
>
>Your argument is that DB is 100 times faster than DT thus the
>90% victory margin holds because machines today are not 100
>times faster than the machines DT beat.  Not true.
>
>Again, the 90% score was against 386 and 486 machines and 8x700 is
>400 to 900 times as fast.  Thats a pretty big jump from the machines
>DT beat from 1988 to 1994.  The 1995 hw that fritz ran on is a P90,
>DT lost and drew against those systems.  That is not 90% and 8x700
>is about 100 times as fast.
>
>Got it.  No I didn't think you did.

I got it. :)

-Tom



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