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Subject: Re: Genius on Palm / Richard Lang the return

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 14:27:50 02/08/00

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On February 08, 2000 at 14:43:24, Ian Osgood wrote:

>This is excellent news!  Richard's programs are a perfect match for the Pilot!
>In my opinion, the Pilot/Genius combo is the ideal portable chess computer.
>
>The Mephisto Roma, upon which this program is based, has an old SSDF rating of
>2030 on a 14Mhz 68020.  I would expect ChessGenius on a standard 17Mhz Palm to
>exceed this strength (especially if the Palm is overclocked).

I think there was a big jump in performance between the 68000 and the 68020. So
I doubt the Palm would run a chess program much better than the Roma. It's maybe
half as fast, but that's just a guess.

(Who knows, maybe Motorola significantly improved the 68000 core for the
Dragonball.)

-Tom



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