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Subject: Re: Is there a limit on our ability to compute endgame tablebases?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 16:57:07 05/28/02

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On May 28, 2002 at 18:49:04, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On May 28, 2002 at 17:23:12, Russell Reagan wrote:
>
>>What kind of a hard drive would you need for these kinds of things? SCSI?
>>Firewire? Also, what size hard disks would it need to be? 100GB? 160GB? There
>>are 180 GB SCSI drives for $999, and 160 GB firewire drives for $318.
>>
>>Russell
>
>
>All the FireWire drives I've seen (I actually own 2 myself) are just ATA drives
>in a box with some circuitry that converts the wire protocol to FireWire.  I
>assume that means they suffer the same drawbacks as ATA drives, if not worse.
>(But for my Mac, both internal ATA drives and external FireWire drives are a
>breath of fresh air after 14 years of wrangling with internal and external SCSI
>drives.)

I'm sorry, but this doesn't mean anything to me. What are the consequences of
this?

Russell



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