Author: Jay Rinde
Date: 11:31:17 07/01/01
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On July 01, 2001 at 13:40:56, Fernando Villegas wrote: >For what purpose, Odell? >If you just make text processing, a 8088 worth $1 is decent enough. >If you play chess and you are around 2000-2200 player, you will be defeated 9 >times of ten or more by any top program running even in a 266 Mhz. >If you are calculating rockets trayectories, probably the decent thing to do is >get a Cray machine. >I have an indecent 550 Mhz AMD-K-6 processor and I scarcely can get a point in >five games from top programs. More than enough for me. >My advice is: do not get involved in the rat race for speedier computers. You >will never stop and you will never heal a deep wound in your budget. The sage, >smart thing to do is to dedide what YOU need, not what your pals, sellers and >magazines say you need. >My best >Fernando I agree with you 2000 per cent. Compoters are cheap today, but that is relative to your pocket book. Besides, as you said, you will never catch up. As for your comment about the Touch Chess game, that 1500 is OK for the casual player but not the dedicated player, I disagree. I think those small hand helds are for blitz, when you're on the bus, in the doctors office, or just killing time. At fast time a 1500 rated chess computer can keep you honest. I had an old fidelity years ago that I could beat quite easily, so I would allow the machine to get good positions against me and sometimes I would have to work very hard to save myself.
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