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Subject: Re: Does Crafty 16.x on today's Pentium III or AMD k6-3...

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 14:04:32 09/14/99

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On September 14, 1999 at 07:53:52, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 13, 1999 at 22:28:24, Martin Grabriel wrote:
>
>>with all its tablebases play better than Cray in the 1980s?
>
>
>No.  Unless you mean using 1980's hardware.  Cray Blitz, on current Cray
>hardware, is pretty formidable...  it can hit almost 10M nodes per second...
>uses singular extensions, etc.  If you mean 1980's era Cray Blitz on modern
>hardware, that is still very strong.  If you mean 1980's era CB software on
>1980's era hardware, it is still at _least_ as fast as the very fastest
>programs of today, but such games would indeed be 'interesting'...

Is the 1983 Cray hardware still available? Or is it completely discontinued?



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