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Subject: Fastest Micro for Computer Chess

Author: Mark Gaddis

Date: 15:55:30 07/25/98


I am sure that most of you are running your chess software on various
configurations of PC's, with the fastest I am aware of being 400MHz Pentium
II's.  I want to let you know there is something much faster out there.  But it
is a Mac!  I am running a G3 Mac at 310MHZ with a 1Meg backside cache also
running at 310MHz.  Byte Magazine has a benchmark utility which will run on both
 PC's and Macs called Bytemark.  My machine gives benchmark values more that
double the 300MHz P2 I have at work.  This means that it should be significantly
faster than even a 400MHz P2.  I have not had time to do any testing with HIARCS
6.0 on my Mac, but I will be curious to see how strong it is on a machine this
fast.  Has anyone had any experience using a G3 Mac with HIARCS 6.0?



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