Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:53:51 09/25/01
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On September 25, 2001 at 20:13:53, Albert Silver wrote: [snip] >I'll argue with it. I doubt very much Deep Junior outsells plain ol' Junior. I >also doubt very much that Deep Shredder outsold Shredder. I believe (no numbers >unfortunately) they have sold less than Hiarcs, Tiger, and Nimzo for example. I >am only speaking of the 'Deep' versions and not their single-cpu brothers that >do well. The only exception I can think of _might_ (no numbers unfortunately) be >Deep Fritz as it not only is an SMP version of Fritz 6, but also an improvement >of it. I rather suspect that soon everyone will have "Deep" versions, including ChessMaster and the rest. Of course, on most PC's they will run a bit *slower* than non-SMP versions. Reason: Marketing hype -- since those marketing SMP versions will be crowing about how great they are, and since "Deep" sounds like "Deep Blue" [which the average user knows is strong enough to beat Kasparov] lots of people will flock to buy them despite the fact that they will not improve performance with it. I suspect that most people who buy it will have no idea that it requires multiple CPU's for a performance boost.
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