Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:03:18 03/21/99
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On March 21, 1999 at 13:15:23, Paulo Soares wrote: > In 1989 the HD approximately had a capacity of storage of 30 Mb. >Today they have approximately 8Gyb, or either, approximately 250x more >capacity of storage of data. In year 2010: > 8*250=2Terabytes >This not influence in Ed' tournamant(computerxcomputer) but >what the influence in computer x humans games in the openings, >endgames(tablebases) and midlegames? > >Best regards, >Paulo Soares,from Brazil. things haven't improved _that_ much. In 1985 we bought a machine with a couple of 1 gig disks. On the PC platform (IDE) I bought a Toshiba Notebook in 1986 with a 40 mb disk, and had SCSI been available back then (on a PC) they could have had 1 gig disks... Today's disks are at 50 gigs max. with 20-30 gigs being pretty common (I just bought a 17 gig disk for 300 bucks at Comp USA (IDE)). So in 10 years we have increased by maybe a factor of 50, which is more realistic...
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