Author: Shep
Date: 03:28:23 09/17/99
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On September 16, 1999 at 18:16:44, odell hall wrote: >Hi > > Generally speaking, what does the computer chess community consider fast >hardware nowadays? Pent 200mmx? Pent 300?. I have heard references to the pent >200 as being slow?? This is kind of funny, slow? compared to what? Five years I think almost everyone will have his own definition of fast/slow. For me, "fast" typically means "at least half the speed of the fastest generally available machines", which resolves to PII-300 nowadays (compared to PIII-600 and Athlon-650). That doesn't mean P5-200 is "slow", it's just "not fast". :) "Slow" probably starts below 25% of the current top, i.e. P5-150 or below. That means in two years, today's "fast" machines will be "average" and the "average" machines will be "slow". And the "slow" ones will be "$25 on the flea market". ;-)) --- Shep
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