Author: walter irvin
Date: 17:32:22 10/13/99
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On October 13, 1999 at 20:25:18, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >On October 13, 1999 at 18:07:12, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hi: >>The long, long thread about Rebel and DB Jr remember me a more practical issue; >>the father of DB said it was going to push a commercial operation to put in the >>market a card version of DB, that is to say, something altoguether different to >>the real, kasparov-killer thing, but anyway stronger han the poor mutilated >>thing Rebel beated so easily. Anybody here know something about the current >>status of hat proyect? >>fernando > >All hype, It is never gonna happen, trust me ! To many problems. Hardware, Ibm, >Cost etc. They talk of speed performance not achievable. Development cost ? who >is going to pay for it ? You think they can get it back at $200 per board even >if they could produce it at that price which is very unrealistic. The market to >recoup the investment is not nearly large enough to compensate for the capital >outlay. > >In other words, it is a pipe dream. that is sad if it is just a pipe dream ,would sure be interesting if it happened .
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