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Subject: Re: Old computers vs new computers

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 12:04:05 12/21/00

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On December 21, 2000 at 13:45:38, Ed Panek wrote:

> Hello all,
>
>   For fun i have been playing a match between two computers using rs232
>both using Hiarcs7.32
>
> One computer is an PIII 800 with 128 MBRAM
> the other    is an old 486 DX-2 100 MHZ with 32 mb EDO
>
> the PIII generates about 70-100k Nodes per second
> the 486 does about 1-3k nodes per second
>
> The PIII is up on games 8.5-.5 but the interesting thing is that
>the 486 actually holds its own until about move 30-40.
>
>  I also played a few manual games with genius 4.0 and it lasted even longer

Genius really does extremely well on 486 hardware. Recently, I'd  made some
changes to Comet and I just wanted to see if everything's still working ok. So I
made a short test-match of 4 blitz games (5min), Comet running on a K6/233 and
Genius-3 on a 486/50. I couldn't hardly believe to see that Genius did win this.

Later, it took the K6/450 to give sufficient advantage to win against
Genius/486.

Though my program may be weak in blitz games, I don't think that any other
opponent would be able to win a blitz match with such hardware disadvantage.

Yes, the Lang programs had been something very special.

Greetings, Uli

>
>I wonder if 7-8 years from now we can expect the same difference ie.
>the computers running H732 will generate about 60X more nodes or will search
>4200-6000knodes per second.
>
>
>hmmm
>
>Ed



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