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Subject: Re: are pc's there yet

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:50:58 12/04/00

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On December 04, 2000 at 10:28:42, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 04, 2000 at 10:03:12, walter irvin wrote:
>
>>i remember back in the 80's i was reading where hitec could see 186,00 nps .i
>>remember thinking (man would i like to have that to play against ) .im just
>>wondering if pc's are actually as strong or stronger than the mainframes were at
>>that time ??
>
>They are stronger than hitech.
>Hitech was probably a program at the same level of Fritz3(p90) inspite of the
>fact that fritz3(p90) is slower in nps.
>
>Programs of today are also faster than hitech in nps.
>
>I believe that the best pc's of today are also better than all the mainframes of
>the 80's even if they are not faster in nps.
>
>Uri

I disagree...  This would also include deep thought at around 16 million
nodes per second, and _that_ would be a handful for any program around today.



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