Author: Pete Galati
Date: 17:22:41 01/21/00
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On January 21, 2000 at 19:46:09, Michael Cummings wrote: >On January 21, 2000 at 19:28:38, walter irvin wrote: > >>which is more important ?????? is it posible that a program written on a 286 >>25mhz 4mg ram could be stronger than deep blue ????? is it posible that a >>program like sargon ran on a machine that produced 2,000,000,000,000,000 nps >>could reach 2900 elo ?? perhaps there are great untried methods that will >>produce major elo jumps ???? > >You need good hardware, plus a good program. Some programs are just not that >good. > >Same as a human player who can see so many moves, but just not have the skill to >play well. Also consider that you culd certainly edit an awfull lot of the code on a 286, but you don't stand any chance of compiling and testing the program on a 286, it's just too extreme an example of antiquity. If someone gave me a 286, I'd probably find a few uses for it, but I think even DJGPP wouldn't work on it, so... Pete
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