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Subject: Re: hardware vs software

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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