Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 01:47:14 03/05/00
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On March 04, 2000 at 21:36:38, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On March 04, 2000 at 19:49:14, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>Sorry, got 'em confused. >> >>Maybe you could download the Genius trial version (1 sec. thinking max) and >>compare PalmChess to it? I guess you need two (equally overclocked ;-) Palms >>for this... but surely you know somebody else with a Palm and a few hours to >>kill? :-) >> >>Dave > >Ah, there's still a bit of confusion. > >There is the "Palm" (sometimes Palm Pilot, or just Pilot) that runs the Palm OS. >It has a 16MHz processor that's basically an improved 68000. I think it's rated >at 2.7 MIPS. Palms these days have between 2 and 8MB RAM. > >Then there are Windows CE palmtops, that run Windows CE. These have a lot of >different processors, but a typical one is a 75MHz MIPS, rated at ~90 MIPS. RAM >is between 4 and 32MB. > >So, Lang's program is for the Palm, and mine is for Windows CE, so mine has an >inherent speed advantage of like 30x. Hopefully this is enough to make mine >better. =) > >-Tom Yes, I'm still confused -- or was, anyway. PalmChess sounded an awful lot like a program made to play on Palm hardware. :-) Dave
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