Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 14:53:24 01/29/05
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On January 29, 2005 at 04:09:46, Steve B wrote: What he describes is about exactly the same idea Ruud is using if i may guess. However it's easy to have a plan. It's hard to execute it. If you stick in a transmeta mini atx type stuff card you actually can run diep under linux at it at 1.4Ghz. In theory windows is also possible but transmeta has problems there. Hardware costs $500. But a lot of work. Obviously a tuned 1.4Ghz engine will destroy anything of < 400-600Mhz which Ruud is trying to incorporate now. Vincent >>What if someone took the guts out of a palm (or maybe bought something like a >>gumstix board with 400 MHz xscale processor) and jammed it into an excalibur >>grandmaster? (You might not want to risk one of your beautiful old wooden units >>on such a beast.) You could have quite a powerful dedicated unit, but would you >>be willing to pay $1000 for such a hack? > >well there are two points here.. >First ..i am not so interested in modified computers >the new dedicated computers that we are talking about will be avaialable to the >general public >there will be perhaps 50 or more sold >a prototype has competed in head on competiton with all of the other dedicated >units and won going away > >SECOND..the new dedicated computer will have two programs and it will be >upgradeable through a pc serial port built into the module >a wed site will be maintained by the seller which will allow upgrades to be >downloaded from the site directly into the computer to all registered owners > >so all together i think its a nice package and worth the money and so do many >other collectors > >what you describe is interesting ,but the concept of taking an existing computer >and modifying its processor or over clocking ,etc etc is not a new one >generally i do not acquire these sorts of computers > > > >now with all of that aside, if you can do what you described for say..$500..you >have your first sale >:)) > >i like the idea you picked the GM board..its a great board to play chess on > >Best >Steve
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