Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:26:39 02/08/00
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On February 08, 2000 at 17:27:50, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>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
I think so. I downloaded the processor data sheet and Motorola claims
performances of 2.7 MIPS at 16.58MHz, which is clearly higher than what the
68000 could achieve in its original version.
I estimate it to perform at 4 MIPS at 26MHz (the speed of my overcloked Palm).
If anybody has more data on this, I'm interested, since I'm no 68K expert.
It's incredible to think you can have much more CPU power and much more RAM in
your pocket than what the original Macintosh offered...
What happened in the computer industry in the last years? ;)
Christophe
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