Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:57:39 06/09/03
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On June 09, 2003 at 08:19:30, Steve Maughan wrote: >Stuart, > >>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. > >A native version of Tiger on a 400 MHz Palm would probably be on par with even >the 1995 best-of-breed programs. I do believe in 1995 Fritz 3 'smashed' the 100 >kn/s barrier on a Pentium 90. I think Tiger will be close in strength. > >Regards, > >Steve I do not know what do you mean by 400 Mhz but if Tiger on 400 Mhz palm is only at similiar strength to old Fritz3 on 90Mhz than 400 Mhz do not mean much. I prefer to be able to use a single number to decide if hardware x is better than hardware y for most chess programs that can run on both hardwares. Why not invent sn(speed number) for every hardware when you can use some chess programs that can run on both hardware to calculate the sn? Uri
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