Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 08:00:49 05/19/02
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On May 19, 2002 at 09:02:21, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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 > You are correct I did it for a purpose, this is bad advertisement from Motorola. I believe that even my AMD Athlon 1.6 Ghz is faster than a G4 750 Mhz. Pichard >>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). >> >> >>
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