Author: Wayne Lowrance
Date: 19:54:23 03/01/00
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On March 01, 2000 at 21:48:30, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >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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