Author: Zachariah Amela
Date: 15:18:44 10/14/99
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On October 14, 1999 at 17:31:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 14, 1999 at 10:58:12, Zachariah Amela wrote: > >>> >>>Bob Hyatt said to me that DB is still around and that I should not believe what >>>I read when people say it has been pulled apart >>-SNIP- >> >>I believe Dr. Hyatt is correct. Not to long ago, I read the DB was >>re-programmed to perform complex chemical analysis. For what I don't recall, >>but the article didn't say anything about DB being "pulled apart." >> >>Take care. > > >That was IBM marketing hyperbole. The SP2 was programmed for chemical analysis, >the DB chips would not be able to do that in any form. So from a marketing >perspective, they told a half-truth to extract a bit more from the advertising >potential of DB's name. But DB isn't doing chemical analysis... any more than >Crafty is scheduling airline reservations. It plays chess. Or it sits. >Nothing else. Ahhh... that makes sense. The article didn't say HOW it was doing the analysis. Well, I can see why they would want to get more marketting bang for the buck. As to it sitting, I wonder why IBM won't let the rest of us chess types have at it. They would be quite interesting to see it on ICS. Oh well. I'm not thinking w/ my marketting hat on. :^)
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