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Subject: Re: Comet B42 MMX P- 166 Mhz Vs CT 14.9 For Palm Ended 4.5-1.5 ?!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 22:16:52 04/16/02

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On April 17, 2002 at 00:04:29, stuart taylor wrote:

>On April 16, 2002 at 17:08:56, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On April 16, 2002 at 11:55:24, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>>
>>>On April 16, 2002 at 10:29:47, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>
>>>>Sorry for the bad news, but my friend asked me yesterday to return his old
>>>>Pentium MMX 166 Mhz computer, since his wife decided to donate it to a local
>>>>school. I noticed that this old Pentium MMX 166 Mhz was almost as fast as a
>>>>Pentium MMX 200 Mhz.
>>>>
>>>>Pichard
>>>
>>>Never mind. I guess that the hardware difference was way larger than originally
>>>intended in this match.
>>>IMHO, the tiger did very well in spite of the large disadvantage.
>>>Anyway, thanks for performing the interesting match, Jorge.
>>>
>>>Uli
>>
>>
>>
>>Yep... Could have been worse... :-)
>>
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>I thought it could have been much better.
>Palm is 54mhz, and compared to 166, it's only around x3, which is very little.
>Much less than 1-ply. And isn't the programing of Tiger one of the greatest?
>S.Taylor

You are wrong by dividing Mhz.
Mhz means nothing

I am sure that the pentium is more than 10 times faster.
palm tiger in the ssdf games searches only some hundreds of nodes per second.

I guess that the palm is at least 50 times slower.

Uri



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