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Subject: Re: Old computers vs new computers

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 12:24:29 12/21/00

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On December 21, 2000 at 15:04:05, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>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

Hi!

There's two more Hiarcs7 (DOS) and Chesstiger that can compete on 486.

Bertil



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