Author: steven blincoe
Date: 10:20:47 06/09/03
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On June 09, 2003 at 04:57:05, stuart taylor wrote: > 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. far greater in only ONE aspect..playing strength.. and even that only because of the faster computing power of toady's computers over the technology of the 70's and 80's playing strenght aside, the dedicated computers of the 70's and 80's destroy the palm in terms of features,wooden board,wooden pieces and even the literature built up over the years i even suspect that many if not most of the programs written in the late 80's would probably be stronger then today's Palm units if they were placed in computers running at 400 MHz and an ARM processor rather then at 16 Mhz on a 68000 processor for my money ..i would rather own ONE Mephisto Bavaria with a 1988 Almeria 32 bit world champion module ,then EVERY Palm or PC chess program ever written! (with the singular exception of the King program of course) Steve
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