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criddell • today at 12:36 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I wonder how far back you can go? Could a modern chess engine run on a Cray 1? 386? 68k?


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kragen • today at 12:53 PM

I don't think there's a meaningful difference between the Pentium and the 80386 except speed. You might have to change the compiler options a bit.

And, with more work, that's true of computers in general; they can all do the same computations once you somehow wire up enough memory: https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=35.%20Linux4004

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