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Subject: Re: The RISC Chip And Chess Programs

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 10:41:21 01/17/03

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On January 17, 2003 at 13:12:01, Dana Turnmire wrote:

>The Novag Star Diamond is advertized as follows:
>
>* Estimated Rating: 2400-2550 at 40 moves in 2 hours.
>
>* Advanced SH7034 RISC processor with 1M program memory and 256K working area,
>running at 20 MHz.
>
>  The 2400-2550 rating is equal to the ratings at SSDF of programs running on
>450 MHz Pentium chips.  Does the RISC chip run 22.5 times faster than the
>pentium chip?  Would a RISC processor running at 450 MHZ be equal to a pentium
>running at 10 GHz?  If the RISC chip is that much faster why could one not run
>an operating system with that chip?

This is marketing drivel. *Completely* meaningless in this context.

>
>One last question.  Would anyone know who the programmer is behind the Novag
>Star Diamond?


Andrew



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