Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:29:03 07/11/00
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On July 11, 2000 at 21:17:40, Jorge Pichard wrote: >Graham Laight wrote that in 1997 Deep Blue did better than Deep Junior is doing >now; whenever it got a significant advantage, it won against Kasparov. > >My answer to that comparison is that if you compare the difference in hardware >between Deep Blue Super computer to the Primergy netserver, it is like >comparing the Space Shuttle to a Helicopter in Speed. Deep Blue could not have >done better against this type of opponents, using the same Primergy Netserver. > >Pichard. It is a ridiculous statement to make. DB was special-purpose hardware. Not a general purpose machine like the primergy. It is the same as asking if a heart surgeon would be able to do the same type of surgery using a steak knife and duct tape.
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