Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:27:05 09/30/05
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On September 30, 2005 at 13:53:22, Steve B wrote: >>I am interested to know how many years old is the task R40. > >the R40 was released in 1993 but it contains Version 2.5 of Johan De koning's >King Program which was released in Feb.of 1995 > >Steve In this case it is a big surprise to read that Ruffian lost against the R40 inspite of superior hardware of Ruffian. IMO Ruffian1.0.1 should be even slightly better on equal hardware than chessmaster6000 that was released clearly after feb 1995 based on the ssdf results(ssdf did not test them on equal hardware but this is my conclusion based on some comparisons). I think that the main question is if fruit is using better hardware. I am not sure about it and it is possible that Mhz is misleading because the hardware of the Tasc R40 was designed specifically for chess when the hardware that fruit use was not designed specifically for chess. Uri
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