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Subject: Re: More doubts with gandalf

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 14:20:10 02/24/01

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The point is the sheer size of the jump from one kind of hardware to another. Of
course I know, as everydoby else, about improvements due to equipment, but this
one is so large that, looking things from a reverse point of view, It could be
said that the negative jump from a very fast hardware to a more average one is
too great. And if the negative jump is too great, then I have certain ground to
consider that when the product was commercially released  they did not put
enough concern in how the thing was going to run in an average kind of machine
proper of the average consummer, even in CCC. Or to say again in another way:
delivery was premature at the cost of the purchaser. My idea is that even in
chess programming, as in fact practically does almost every company of
programmer, you ensure that the release will be enough good for the average
machine proper of time. That's the reason that we, with machines from 90 to 800
Mhz, all can say this or that product is very good, etc, although  recognizing
that with the fastest one is better. The point is they give us something good
even when running in no so fast equipment. So we not complain about Tiber or
Rebel on the ground that they only run OK when loaded in a 1,2 Giga monster.
I hope my point is clear, Mogens
Fernando



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