Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 06:02:21 05/19/02
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On May 18, 2002 at 22:41:10, Jorge Pichard wrote: Please don't quote the nonsense from motorola. Sure the G4 is a nice processor but 750Mhz is pretty slow. Actually it is theoretic impossible it outguns a P4 at 2.5Ghz. Best regards, Vincent >True RISC Processing > The new Star line uses Motorola's new RISC processor technology. RISC is an >acronym for Reduced Instruction Set Chip. A simple description of what that >means is the chip uses a more efficient group of internal commands to accomplish >its task. This technology, developed by Motorola, allows processors to process >information more quickly. Those of you familiar with Macintosh know of the G4 >RISC processors, which process information faster than Pentium or Athlon >processors of the same clock speed. A G4 750mHz processor will run 2 to 3 times >faster than a 1200mHz (1.2gHz) Pentium 4, partially due to the difference >between RISC and DISC (Pentium or Athlon) processors. The processor also >generally runs much cooler, extending the lifetime of the chips themselves. The >new Novag chess computers utilize this newer processor technology, and the gains >are seen in substantially higher playing strengths, at much faster speeds. >According to Novag, the Star Sapphire, utilizing the SH7020 16mHz RISC >processor, will have and estimated ELO rating of 2530. The Star Diamond, >utilizing the SH7020 20mHz RISC processor, will have and estimated ELO rating of >2550. All the Star series computers use 1 megabyte of Program Capacity (ROM) and >256k of capacity random access memory (RAM). > > >Pricing and Availability
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