Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:58:15 07/11/98
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On July 11, 1998 at 16:23:23, SEAN EVANS wrote: >Those of you disbeliever's in regard to Schroeder's choice for a CPU in the >Anand match. May I remind you that he has been working in a computerized >environment for approximately 25 years and if Rebel can pull off an upset, his >sales will increase dramatically at least in the short term. So why would he >fudge CPU ratings. What ever CPU he chooses I will be at least be considering >it for my next upgrade. > >BTW I heard a rumour that IBM has a CPU coming soon that is running at 1,000 >MHZ. Imagine running a Quad 1,000 MHZ and having Quad 256 MEG RAM chips. more than one company has 1ghz chips running. The PPC is one well-known case. The digital alpha is another. I received some > 500mhz Intel benchmark results 3 months ago as well, and have also gotten data on the "merced" chip from the Intel/HP joint venture. So lots of things are going to happen over the next two years... > >I am fairly sure this future system due out relatively soon should turn Rebel >into a Micro-Grandmaster. > ><SNIP> >> Quoting from Ed's benchmarkpage: > >> Pentium PRO 200 1:02 7:38 1:57 0:19 4:56 0:26 >> Cyrix 200 1:22 10:12 2:20 0:17 3:45 0:22 >> AMD K6 200 0:47 5:50 1:30 0:15 3:45 0:20 > >> I would not trust the times given on Ed's web page. ><SNIP> > >Best Regards, > >Sean Evans
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