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Subject: Re: Troubled

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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