Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 07:06:52 11/16/01
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On November 16, 2001 at 09:39:30, John Sidles wrote: >Just thought you chess programmers might want to take another look at supporting >MacOS. First of all Macs are real expensive. Secondly fastest dual processor system of them is a something like 533Mhz dual g4. G4s on paper are good processors, but the real speed is all based upon the 'velocity' engine which can do some complex instructions which regrettably the computerchess world can't use! Everyone reports home experiments running cpu's at like 3 or 10Ghz. That's of course jokes. Please try to get a written contract that you pay them $1 million if at 2006 they do sell 20Ghz processors. And they pay you $100k if they didn't manage to produce CPUs running at 20Ghz and beating the G4 by a factor of say 20? If you look at the old intel drums as their PR department posted, then i think we would on paper have a 10Ghz pentium by now? It's not hard to write down: "by 2005 we run at 20Ghz, don't worry!" It's harder to believe them knowing the g4 doesn't even clock above 733Mhz, whereas intel clocks 2 Ghz and K7 is now at 1.6Ghz.
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