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Subject: Even Palms are greater than famous old computers, people don't think any

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 01:57:05 06/09/03


 People not involved in chess sometimes look upon a great Palm chess program as
being one of the lowliest little gadgets anyone could think of, and certainly a
most obvious one. But the greatest of handheld programs (soon to be Christophes
upcoming Palm program maximised for about 400Mhz (Arm).Is probably far far
greater in all its aspects than all the great famous old computers of the 1970's
and perhaps of some from the 1980's. More recent too, but of those, the Palm
would CRUSH them in every game.
 We should be happy not to be paying ten million dollars for a recent Palm with
best program in a few months from now, maybe now too. Not more than one person
should also have the privelage of having one!
 Not to speak of things like Shredder 7.04 on 3Ghz Athlon, which is almost
nothing today.
Who wouldn't have paid alot in the early 1980's for a pocket world champion? ANY
millionaire who understood what it is would have paid $100,000 guranteed!
 One who didn't understand what it is would never even agree to keep it out of
the garbage (as far as the chess is concerned) for one second!
It's sometimes hard to explain this to people, I mean to the type who want it in
the garbage. I sound to them like a real baby, and all their opinion of me goes
down the drain!
S.Taylor



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