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Subject: Re: PowerMac G4 -- Good for chess ?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 18:48:43 10/18/99

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On October 18, 1999 at 21:38:14, Ray MacFadyen wrote:

>In an australian magazine there is a story about the new Powermac G4,it says it
>is a 128 bit machine that can calculate one billion floating calculations per
>second and is reported to outperform the pentium 3 600 by roughly three times.
>Does anyone know anything about this machine,would it be three times as fast for
>chess programs.
It's probably a pretty good machine all right.  But I expect the claims are
about 70% hype, just as with any other system.

>My next question is slightly off topic,I hope no one is offended,in australia
>3 months ago 64 megs of sdram was $80,it has now risen to $250,an increase of
>over 3x,is this happening in the rest of the world and if so what is the reason
>for it.
Look here:
http://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/kepler/mfrmod_Bod.asp

>Hope someone can answer these questions.
>Ray MacFadyen



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