Author: Mark Young
Date: 12:56:55 05/02/99
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On May 02, 1999 at 15:34:03, Roger D Davis wrote: >Say that Hsu is able to make a Deep Blue Junior card available for the average >PC-compatible computer for $200 (my assumption, not published info). Wouldn't >that destroy the market for the commericial programs? I mean, who is going to >want to pay $100 for Millenium or even $50 for Fritz when they can pay less than >the price of Chessbase and have something that could shred all but the top ten >grandmasters (and maybe those two) on their desktop? Since a single chess chip >slowed way, way down thumped two of the leading commercials, seems that this >will destory the careers of a lot of good programmers. Either that, or you'll be >able to buy Rebel for $20, and free shipping. > >Roger If Deep Blue jr can do what it claims it can do, and at a cheap enough price...it will change the market like the car did to the horse buggy. Because no program and current desktop chip combination (PIII,K7,or alpha) can match or come close to the proformance of what they claim for Deep Blue jr with just one chip, let alone a 16 chip deep blue jr. It remains to be seen if this is hype or truth.
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