Author: Paulo Soares
Date: 12:15:34 03/21/99
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On March 21, 1999 at 14:03:18, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Robert, Then we will have HDs with approach capacity of 50x20=1Terabyte. You know much about the endgames tablebases, what you find that would happen? 7 pieces, 9 pieces, in the endgames tablebases? Best regards, Paulo Soares
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