Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:41:56 01/15/00
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On January 15, 2000 at 12:09:01, James Robertson wrote: >I guess it all boils down to whether or not IBM could create a DB in several >years without Hsu. You think they couldn't. Maybe you are right, and maybe I am >underestimating the difficulty involved in such a project. I didn't say they couldn't do it. I did say it would take on the order of another 12 years to start from scratch with a new person. I believe _I_ could design such a chip myself. And fortunately I know a lot more about what Hsu did than most because I was always willing to ask. But the number of people that did ask are _very_ scarce... > >I can't accept that a company with the resources of IBM would have to rely on a >single person because no one else (or no other group of people) on the planet is >capable of doing it within a reasonable amount of time. > >James Can you say "Hello Seymour Cray?" :) There have been several such people. (and yes I know Seymour Cray is deceased.)
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