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From: ekw@well.UUCP (Elliott Winslow)
Newsgroups: misc.forsale,rec.games.chess,comp.ai
Subject: Re: strong chess machines for sale
Summary: Which Program in Which Board?
Keywords: Mephisto Mondial, Mephisto Exclusive
Message-ID: <7255@well.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 16:26:25 GMT
References: <6381@venera.isi.edu>
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Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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I have lost track of which is which with Mephisto these days. I was running
the Roma in the little (non-wood) board at work, just to save desk-space and
money; they have three different boards, and who-knows-how-many modules, with
prices varying from a couple hundred to a few thousand dollars. On the whole
a very effective implementation. [Flaw: Roma program/hardware (68xxx) requires
a bigger power supply, so it plugs right into the module up front. Looks bad
and gets in the way, at least on the low-end board]

Just for reference, I'm no longer employed by Heuristic Software as of this
afternoon. Does that mean that now I'll say all the awful things about Saitek
products that I've always wanted to in the past? I thought I'd already said
them...

   Elliott Winslow
   ekw@well.UUCP
   (415)653-4256
   ELLIOTT/LINC