Author: Slater Wold
Date: 04:42:06 08/15/02
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On August 15, 2002 at 02:45:16, Stuzzi Kadent wrote: >Slater, I think you are overestimating the price by overspecifying and counting >things the guy would not need for his stated purpose. I am sure he doesn't need >a lot of what you have in your own system. One thing I am curious about is why >the need for so much memory and SCSI disks also. If it is to do with tablebases, >does your main program read them from disk or can it load them into memory, or >is either to do with another task primarily. Why not? >I guess the job could be done closer to $1000 with savvy and cutting exorbitant >codpiece-filling specifications down. I doubt it. 2 CPUs + motherboard + memory + shipping and you're at $1,000. You still need a case, floppy drive, etc, etc.
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