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Subject: Re: Many Palms can run at 54MHz

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 15:36:17 08/27/01

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On August 27, 2001 at 18:15:43, Torstein Hall wrote:

>On August 27, 2001 at 13:28:00, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On August 27, 2001 at 04:44:10, Torstein Hall wrote:
>>
>>>On August 26, 2001 at 23:23:52, stuart taylor wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 26, 2001 at 18:07:54, Eran wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On August 26, 2001 at 17:42:42, Torstein Hall wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>I just visited the CB site and saw that Pocket Fritz was out. Has anyone here
>>>>>>tried it or have some experience with it? Played it against Pocket Genius
>>>>>>perhaps?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Anyway it looked very nice, pretty packed with features it looked like. Beeing
>>>>>>able to enter variatons, multiple variaton mode as normal CB products so you
>>>>>>could sit analyze away from home with computer help. It could even look up CB
>>>>>>online database over a mobile phone connection.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Perhaps I just will have to buy it!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Torstein
>>>>>
>>>>>It is possible that any chess player would cheat by using chess palm in a hidden
>>>>>place during tournament. So, how can tournament directors prevent any chess
>>>>>player from cheating with chess palm?
>>>>>
>>>>>If tournament directors can't, could future tournaments be not worth anymore?
>>>>>
>>>>>Eran
>>>>
>>>>If you were going to ask that, I'd have thought you'd have rather asked it re.
>>>>Palm Tiger. Why single out Fritz?
>>>>S.Taylor
>>>
>>>Fritz is running at much better hardware! Compare 16mhz "dragonball" to a 206Mhz
>>>ARM, so before Tiger is running on Pocket PC, its in a completly other ballpark!
>>>
>>>Torstein
>>
>>
>>
>>On my Palm m505, Chess Tiger runs at 54MHz.
>>
>>It's not as fast as an iPaq, but at least get your facts right.
>>
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>I do not think most Palms are able to reach that speed and out of factory  they
>run at 16 or perhaps 33mhz, so my facts are at least not that wrong!
>
>Torstein



Most Palms can run at least twice as fast as the default factory settings.

My PalmIIIx was running at 258% its orginal speed for example.

For some Palms it's as high as 3 to 4 times faster.



    Christophe



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