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Subject: Re: Crafty and Cray Blitz Questions to Prof. Hyatt

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:41:27 10/09/00

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On October 09, 2000 at 11:03:57, Joshua Lee wrote:

>Can the code be ported to Windows, then CrayBlitz could play a match against
>crafty?


If you want to port about 20,000 lines of Cray assembly language to the PC.
And even then it wouldn't be the same.  The PC is _not_ a vector machine.  We
spent years developing vectorizable algorithms for Cray Blitz to make it run
fast on the Cray.

As I said, we need a Cray.  And they are not easy to get.  Which is why CB
was retired about 5 years ago.  Tough to convince someone to loan you a computer
that sells for $30,000,000.00 and change...



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