Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 13:02:21 11/01/00
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Your palm is probably also from 1990 then Christophe, because for example the philips nino has 16mb RAM and a MIPS 75Mhz processor with an incredible amount of registers: 32. Most palmpc's have like 2mb anyway, obviously philips spoiled the world a bit, however weirdly the philips nino didn't become a big success probably they didn't earn enough at it. Seems only products where dudes earn most on become a big success. Most palms that are still in shop, have entire different processor with way less RAM, like 2mb or 4mb up to 8mb is normal, and processor is usual a slow 33Mhz one. However that's completely different as the picture you write down below Christophe. I think even the single chips have more as 32kb RAM, even my old calculator has more as 32kb RAM :) On November 01, 2000 at 15:51:27, Christophe Theron wrote: >On November 01, 2000 at 03:19:35, Martin Grabriel wrote: > >>I think more than half a year ago, I have appealed in this forum for programmers >>among you to produce a Palm version of your program, commercial or otherwise. >>This is my 2nd appeal. >> >>"Please..." >> >>I think Chess Genius 1.2 is very successful and is capable of expert strength, >>enough to challenge mortals like us. Its save and load functions, although >>primitive is extremely useful. >>There are more than 60 free winboard engines floating around, can't just one >>have a Palm version? Pocket Chess and ChromaGames (Chess) are the other 2 other >>playable programs...but there is always room for more.... > > > >The problem is that programmers are spoiled by the fast computers with a lot of >RAM. > >The Palm has very limited resources, and most chess engines written after 1990 >will not fit in 32Kb. > >And let me laugh about the ones who believe they don't need to program endgame >knowledge just because they use endgame tablebases. :) Idem for middlegame, though some commercial books skip that entirely nowadays. Like Nimzo-ANT in dutch open ended after book in KRPPP versus KRPPP. >Notice that ChessGenius for Palm is a port of a 1987 program: the Mephisto Roma. >Even if a Winboard engine could be ported to the Palm, I guarantee that it has >absolutely NO chance against Richard Lang's program on equal hardware. >Especially the slow hardware of the Palm (68000 @16MHz). Oh well Jeroen Noomen has a different opinion on that, besides a 68000 palm with 32kb RAM and a motorola 68000 @ 16Mhz, WHEN did you buy that, 1990? > Christophe
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