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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