Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:08:25 07/25/98
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On July 25, 1998 at 18:55:30, Mark Gaddis wrote: >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? No, but I've reported on the G3 here before. It *is* a good chip. And to keep your interest up, you might be interested to know that 800mhz versions are *running* right now... And they *scream*. Will be a while before they show up in the Mac, however, as it still has a lousy memory bus.
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