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Subject: Re: Cool it please - Vincent

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:18:33 09/04/02

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On September 04, 2002 at 19:49:39, Slater Wold wrote:

>On September 04, 2002 at 13:44:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>
>>So?  that was the rough speed on the C90.  Is there a point in why that
>>is "interesting"???
>
>500k nps is the speed of Crafty on a P3 800mhz.  Not exactly "super-computer"
>caliber.
>
>Even the slowest of them all, HIARCS, get like 200k nps (average) on my computer
>(1 cpu).  If it was parallel, then 350k or so.
>
>I thought it was interesting, only because I thought a C90 would be a *lot*
>faster.  My guess would be, people probably thought the C90 @ 16 cpus was
>hitting several million nps.

Not for me.  The T90 with 32 did about 7M.  But we never played in a tournament
with one of those...

Don't forget, the C90 is now 13+ years old.  Go back to 1990 and see how the
PCs were doing.  :)




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