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Subject: Re: Star Diamond ... 1/100 Intel speed -- yet still strong?

Author: Steven Schwartz

Date: 12:30:54 01/22/02

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On January 22, 2002 at 15:27:29, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On January 22, 2002 at 13:23:29, Steven Schwartz wrote:
>
>>Just received the official word on speed:
>>    Star Sapphire (the hand-held) 16 MHz
>>    Star Diamond (the table-top) 20 MHz
>>
>
>
>The faster of these is running at less than ONE PERCENT of the clock speed of
>Intel's latest P4.
>
>How can it possibly play chess at anywhere near master level?


The last generation did and it was running slower, to the best of
my knowledge, but time will tell.
Steve



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