Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 18:48:30 03/01/00
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On March 01, 2000 at 21:08:52, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >Program:---------Deep Jr > >case a)----------dual 500 mhz celerons > >case b)----------single Athylon 850 mhz > >case c)----------overclocked* (what ever) to 1 gig. > >I would buy it from a custom system house with 3 yrs warranty ! > >Those are my options. Question: I have a hunch that Djr would plat at about the >same strength in all case's above. In any case Opinion please, what do ya think. > >Dr. Bob ? & others please. > >Thank you > > Wayne > >gonna do one of them, but which one. Wayne, Wait about two months and get a dual 700 Mhz Intel machine. The prices will be down quite a bit. I assume that you are going to have an older system to run all your MSDOS and Win95/98 applications. I don't think that you will get a warranty on any "overclocked" system. Some of my applications like "Dance of the Planets" by Arcscience Software are purely MSDos and do not run even in Windows 3.1 . My "World Champion Checkers" by Gil Dodgen announces a win in 86 ply in one second on a 133Mhz Pentium and it is purely MSDos. There are a lot of really useful programs that only run on slower and older systems. In any case do not think that just by speeding the search you will get human-like chess programs. Deep Blue had at least 500 times the speed advantage and humongous databases and it lacked the ability to strategize well. It's like a fine German or Italian touring car...Beautiful and fast but you can rarely use all of its' features but you know that they are there. Tim Frohlick
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